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November 1992

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 8, NUMBER 11, NOVEMBER 1992

FEATURES

The Amiga 4000 By Um Wallace . . . $

It's the fastest, must powerful, and amazing-
ly "colorful" Amiga ever made. Find out why
the Amiga is hack on top of the personal-
computer heap in this special in-depth pie-
view of the A4000, to he introduced this fall.

ARTICLES

Piece Negotiations

By Steven Blaize i> D

Creative image-compositing techniques
can yield interesting digital collages to
use in your video, animation, or print
presentations.

Know Your Rights

By Eric Giguere 39

If you write your own programs and
want to sell them or distribute them as
I'D or shareware, here's what you need
to know about copyright conventions.

Publish With Panache

By Victor Osaka 43

Try this hands-on, A-lo-Z course in print
design if you plan to get involved in pro-
ducing newsletters, bulletins, brochures,
or any other "home-grown" publications.

Digging into DOS — 1

By Sheldon Leemon 4 7

A brand-new series on AmigaDQS 2.0
debuts ibis month to show you how to
get the most out of Release 2 of the
Amiga operating system.

ANIMATION LIVEl By Gene Hamm . .52

If you want to do animation but are not an
accomplished artist, "rotoscoping" may be
just the ticket to get you over the hump.

(01 I M\ S
Editor's Drawer By Dennis Bruson . 6

There's a new name on die corner ollice
at ,111.' so bid 'bye 'bye to Barney and give
a listen to Brisson,

Accent on Graphics

By Joel Hagen 58

A few simple painting and image-pro-
cessing techniques can help you quickly
create realistic, natural-looking back-
grounds for any type < >f presentation.

// wilt huff and puff and blow the cybersox nf] any
PC/Mac in the house. Check out our special
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VIDEO SUITE By Paulo de Andrade ..60

For video buffs who are baffled bv the bur-
geoning arrav of videotape and YTR for-
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nate the confusion.

DEPARTMENTS

Overscan 8

A monthly roundup of (he latest news.
nni products and network inlormation
from every corner of Mondo Amiga.

Help Key ..92

WI.Ol' is hack on the air this month to
provide answers to your tech-trouble
questions.

The Last Word 112

I lere's a sampling of a flood oi mail
we've been getting hitch' about the
magazine and the Amiga market.

AW Product Information. 1 04

To contact the vendors of products
mentioned in this issue ofAmigaWorld,
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/
Distributors' Addresses" list.

REVIEWS

Professional Draw 3.0 (Gold Disk)

and PROVECTOR 2.1/PSlMPORT
(Stylus) 20

Major updates of two heavyweights in the
structured-drawing arena.

A2386SX Bridgeboard (CBM) . . 22

Full PC compatibility with IBM's latest
models.

EXCELLENCE! 3.0(Micro-Systems) and

Kind-words 3 (The Disk Co.), 26

There's one big winner in this duo of\VP
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Virtual Reality Studio (Domark /

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Expert 4D Jr. (Genisoft) 76

Entry-level 5-D modeling and animation.

BOOMBOX (Dr.T's) 80

Interactive music-making made easy.

Personal VDA (DPS) and Bread-
board (Cardinal Video) 81

Internal video-signal distribution amps.

EXPERTDRAW (Genisoft) 84

Entry-level stmctured-drawing program.

Animatrix Modeler (duBoh) 84

Low-budget 3-D modeler.

(JAMES

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 98

This month, AWs top game tipster
tackles Ultima VI: The False Prophet.

SlMEARTH (Maxis) 98

Sim games fans will be wowed bv this one.

MEGAFORTRESS (Three-Sixty / EA) .101

Highly detailed aircraft simulator.

Conquests of the Longbow:

ROBIN HOOD (Sierra On-Line) 102

Colorful adventure/strategy game.

Short Takes ..106

Capsule reviews of new Amiga games.

The Next Round 108

Announcements of upcoming game

titles.

NEXT MONTH:

The annual Amiga Games Special!

Plus: Amiga claymaiion, 3-D digitizing,

AResiN Q&A, AmigaDOS 2.0 and more.

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The A4000 is Commodore's latest computer, with a new DOS, a
faster processor, and a dynamic new graphics chip set.
But will it fly?

Bye-Bye Barney

Publisher's note:

This issue marks the debut of Dennis
BrissoD as editor-in-chief of Amiga-
World. He succeeds Doug Barney, who
lias accepted a position with InfoWorld.

We wish Doug well as he leaves he-
hind the luster of the Amiga market —
where music, art, animations, and greal
games are the norm — and returns to a
market dominated bv spreadsheets,
databases and accounting software.
Doug anticipates the upcoming chal-
lenges of his new position and lakes
with him many fond memories from
his three-year stint vnihAW.

Dennis is a capable successor, with
nine years' experience in the Com-
modore market — albeit the eight-bit
side. Some of you may already be fa-
miliar with Dennis's work as editor-in-
chief of RUN, the C-64/128 magazine,
since its inception in January 1984. He
will continue to function as RUN'S
editor-in-chief, along with his duties at
AmigaWorld.

— Dale Strang

An Auspicious Beginning

I take over the reins ol AmigaWorld at a
propitious time. Commodore has just
taken a giant step in the evolution of
computing with the introduction of the
A4000.

The specifics of the newest member
of the Amiga family are spelled out in
this issue's feature article (see p. 30).
Highlights of the system include a new
25-MHz 68040 processor, a new ver-
sion (3.0) of AmigaDOS, expansion
options galore, and the introduction of
a new graphics chip set.

Some of you may be thinking: "Oh
no, another new machine, another

A] 000 rehash!" In the past, Commo-
dore has been criticized for introducing
machines that feature the same old
technology in a brand new package.
Whether or not you agree with that
assessment, you'll encounter plenty of
new and exciting features in the A4000.
In fact, there are several reasons we
feel justified in referring to the A4000
as Commodore's first new computer
since the A! 000.

Three reasons are Alice, Paula and
Lisa, the most dynamic trio since Char-
lie's Angels. This Advanced Architecture
(AA, pronounced Double A) chip set
establishes new standards for desktop
video and multimedia. The AA chips
offer an expanded choice of colors (you
can use up to 256 different colors on a
screen at once from a palette of over 16-
milliorj colors) and screen resolutions.
The machine is also designed to accom-
modate a variety of memon-storage
and expansion options.

Amiga I bird-party developers now
have a great tool to show off their
imagination and talent. We've chatted
with several company reps who are
genuinely excited about creating prod-
ucts lor the A4000. We fully expect that
vendors in this market will, once again,
rise to the challenge and create many
interesting new A4000 products in the
near future.

In bringing the A4000 lo market.
Commodore did nothing to jeopar-
dize its standing as the leader in
graphics-intensive applications. We
predict that the niche they've secured
in the high-end multimedia and desk-
top video market will continue to
expand. Among multimedia zealots
and DTV devotees, Commodore cer-
tainly solidified its reputation by
introducing a high-end multimedia
and desktop-video machine for an
attractive price (also, a trade-up pro-
gram for this machine may be in the

oiling, given Commodore's marketing
history).

The A4000 will have its detractors.
Questions about the feasibility of
upgrading existing Amiga machines
to the A4000 standards remain unan-
swered. Also, some may complain that
access to SCSJ devices is an option,
and not a standard feature, with the
A4000. However, while critics will
never be assuaged, fans will be
pleased. This computer promises to
excite those graphics groupies and
video partisans who are involved in
multimedia productions, videos and
animations.

In this issue, we hint at the prospect
of more good things coming from
Commodore. No doubt, the A4000
represents the first of what may devel-
op into a new line of Amigas. In this
case, the old show-biz saying, "You ain't
seen nothing yet," applies.

I look forward to my tenure as edi-
tor-in-chief, which promises to be
filled with many new developments
from Commodore and the Amiga
community. AmigaWorld wi\\ continue
to bring its readers the highest-quality
editorial with the latest new develop-
ments in the market, the most objec-
tive and timely reviews, informative
and entertaining features and useful
and easy-to-understand tutorials. Be
sure to stav tuned.

6 November 1992

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OVERSCAN

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Art in Action

How do you parlay experience as a
race-car mechanic and a driller on a
Mediterranean oil rig into a career as a
top graphics designer"- For British-born
Ray Masters, the answer was: Get an
Amiga!

II you're not from South Florida, von
may not be familiar with Masters' name,
but you're sure to have seen his work, It
can be found on beaches and ski slopes
throughout the world. His bold, colorful
designs adorn fashion items from inter-
national sportswear giants such as Elho
Brunner, Ellese, Swatch, and Wilson.
(Elho Brunner sold S 1 5 million worth of
clothing bearing Masters' designs in one
year.) Masters has also designed striking
posters and programs for major sport-
ing events, including the Toyota Grand
Prix, the World Water Ski Champi-
onships, and the Chris Evert Pro-
Celebrity Tennis Tournament (pictured
at the right), to name just a few.

Sketching on a Digital Canvas

Some time after his apprenticeship on

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the oil rig off the coast of Sicilv, Masters
washed up on the Florida coast at Delray
Beach. His first American design venture
was making T-shirts — by hand — for the
local sun-and-surf set. He soon latched

on to the just-released Amiga 2000, and
with an early version of DeluxePaint and
an HP PaintJet printer, he quickly ex-
panded his operations far beyond the
beaches north of Miami.

Oddly enough, Masters— who now
presides over a four-person company,
Ray Masters Productions, [hat requires a
high-priced firm of tax accountants — has
retained the simple computer-design ap-
proach he employed in the earlv davs.
No 24-bit graphics, 1 6- million-color
palettes, and fancy enhanced-display de-
vices for Masters: "I'm basically a DPaint
artist. I always use the same form of ma-
nipulation. Fin a low-res, eight-color
man. 1 don't rely on the technology as
much; I depend on it as a canvas." Yet,
despite this electronic sketch-pad ap-
proach to computer graphics. Masters is
one of the most successful Amiga artists
in the world today.

Jack of all Trades

While acknowledging that the Amiga
has made a crucial difference in his work

Video Edits, JPEG Style Extra Explanations

Digital Micronics' new Digital EditMas-

ter ($2495) turns your A2000 or A3000 into
a video-editing suite and promises to pro-
vide capabilities that would normally cost
you upwards of S100.000. The heart of the
system is a video compressor based on full-
motion JPEG technology and LSI Logic's
JPEG chip set.

In real time, the board digitizes, com-
presses, and stores traditional video seg-
ments onto your Amiga's hard disk, where
you can edit and modify them. The board is
capable of compressing and storing typical
animation frames to a hard drive on a
frame-by-frame basis, and you can play
back the result in real time directly to tape,
without needing a single-frame recorder.
(RS# 130.)

Bailled bv Workbench or ARexx? Help is as close as your bookshelf. Fast Guide
to Workbench {Vidia. $8.95) covers Preferences, system programs, utilities, and
tools, Commodities and their hot-key codes, fonts, gadgets, keyboard shortcuts, and
other operating-svstem topics. To make your own crib notes, the booklet includes
blank function key and numeric keypad overlays for reference templates. For a con-
cise reference to ARexx commands and functions, consider Fast Guide to ARexx
(Vidia, $8.95), which describes each command's syntax, keywords, options and re-
sults, as well as providing general language conventions. (RS# 1 12.)

Ifvou prefer a walk-through approach, Hip through the pages ofThe ARexx Cook-
book by Merrill Callaway (Whitestone, S24.95). Supplemented by thorough discussions
of commands and techniques, lessons increase in complexity from writing simple
stand-alone programs to making complex connections among multiple applications.

Whether you're a rank beginner or a seasoned programmer trying to control
PostScript via ARexx, The ARexx Cookbook promises enlightenment. For easy and
thorough reference, the book's index and margin notes include page numbers for
William Hawes" and Commodore's .ARexx manuals, documentation for application
software discussed, and the Cookbook itself. An optional (S5) companion disk
rounds out the package. (RS# 1 13.)

To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 104.

8 November 1<>>>2

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Combine this with ProWrite's already

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fonts and pictures. A spelling checker
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letters. And multiple columns, includ-
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audio/video scripts — a ProWrite
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And of course, ProWrite 3.3 retains
the speed and ease-of-use that has
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New Low Price!

Even with all this power, ProWrite is
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V E R S C A N

and its success (he states he could never
have been as prolific and efficient with-
out it). Masters did come equipped with
some natural talent of his own. After
leaving Harrow, the prestigious English
public school, at age 16, he worked as a
photographer and graphics artist at a
London advertising agency. Sandwiched
between his auto-racing clays and his
stint as an oil driller, he also worked in
design and marketing For the high-pow-
ered UK-based Norwood Group.

All of this varied experience finds ex-
pression in his work. Masters' love of
sports, knowledge of race cars, and ad-
ventures on the high seas inform both
the style (broad, bold, energetic) and
subject matter of his art. As the title of his
media kit/portfolio attests, his is "The
Art of Action." —Jan Jackson

Multimedia Makeover

Scala MultiMedia 2.0 (also called Scala MM200} packs even more features into
Sca/a's popular multifunction multimedia program. MM200 adds 25 more special
effects, an unlimited-length horizontal crawl line; out-wipes; area transitions; a
link function for simultaneous movement of multiple text lines or logos; variables
and conditional branching for interactive presentations; support for DCTV stills
and animations; AnimLab (an animation-enhancement utility); and the long-await-
ed sound support. You can now synchronize music and sound effects with your
presentation graphics and animations, as well as record your own sounds with
a sampler board.

The program's interface was also revamped. As an alternative to Scala's fa-
miliar (and now configurable) main menu, the Scala Shuffler lets you view and
rearrange thumbnail versions of your presentation pages. Reaching out for more
power, the Scala Ex system of control modules for external devices and pro-
grams lets you incorporate into your presentations images from laser-disc and
still-video players, audio from MIDI devices and CDTV CDs, and input from
ARexx-compatible programs. For new owners, Scala MM200 retails at $495.
Registered owners of Scala should contact the company for upgrade informa-
tion. |RS# 115.)

Last month, I addressed the
benefits ol'Iiucrnet. the network
layer service recently made
available through Portal. With

increased versatility and interac-
tion between the nets, "tclecom-
municationspeak" is trickling
down from the high-end busi-
ness and education fields to the
hobbyist level. Maybe you've
heard of things like Telenet,
Usenet, and Tymnet, but is is
clear just what they are"-

For a frame of reference on
how these various services relate
to telecommunications in to-
day's networks, a Reader's Di-
gest look back into computer
history is in order.

Telecommunications
History 101

In the 1970s, computer use was
generally limited to a teletype-
iike printing machine that read
punched cards or inch-wide
rolls of paper. These terminal
machines were connected with
others via phone lines to a
large mainframe, or host com-
puter, across town or across the
state.

These network-connected
hosts and terminals constituted
early-generation LANs, or local
area networks. Teteconinnmica-

ON-LINE

SCAN

By Tim Walsh

tions pioneers worked to create
voluntary protocol standards for
the network of terminals and
computers. Host computers
were tied into local networks,
and began to serve as "gate-
ways" to such network services
as CompuServe.

In the course of the next
decade, network layers such as
Intci net came on the scene. To
get the various smaller nets
working in harmony. Internet
Protocol established standards
for sending e-mail and other
data between servers and host
computers, opening up the
possibility of data sharing with
all platforms having common
access to a network. Portal is a
great example of such data
sharing taken to a new, low-cost
level on the nets.

Many education centers and
large corporations use UNIX-
based mainframes, worksta-
tions, and even UNIX-based
Amigas to send e-mail and other
data to a variety of nets. Usenet
is the network of choice for
UNIX-based telecommunica-
tions, and thus UNIX is widely
represented on networks such as
CompuServe. Consequently, a
lot of messages on networks that
support gateways and direct

Usenet connections, such as Por-
tal, will have the address of the
author in a username, site, net-
work format.

A generic, simplified exam-
ple might appear as timw@
cs.brown.edu. The first part of
the sending party's name isjust
that — a person's on-line name
or screen name. That is then
followed by the "at" sign and
the server's site or location.
Even the originating network is
sometimes included: in the
above example, it's Brown Uni-
versity. Some of the smaller nets
keep this information intact
with the e-mail, so you can typ-
ically figure out where the mes-
sage originated.

Making Connections
Telenet and Tymnet are not net-
works; rather, they serve as
telecommunication packets for
connecting between networks.
For instance, with a call to one
number listed in the White
Pages. I access my accounts on
every network that 1 mention in
this column (except GEnie), plus
a few others such as America
Online.

Packet services can be further
divided into smaller specialties
such as Sprininel and PC-Pur-

suit. Familial' to many Amiga
users, PC-Pursuit is the name of
the outdialing service that can
reduce the price of Calls for com-
puterists without local numbers
for Telenet and Tymnet. Fi-
doNet is lesser known because
it's outside of the normal net-
work circle, being comprised of
large-scale BBS systems.

So, now there you have it — a
glance at some of the words that
end with "net" and how they
came to be common in Amiga
telecommunications. Of course,
this overview hardly scratches
the surface. There's a lot more
of this information online: here
are some good places to start
looking:

BIX

800/227-2983
617/354-4137

CompuServe

614/457-0802
800/848-8199

GEnie

800/638-9636

Portal Communications
408/973-9111 □

10 November 1992

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DSS-8 has built-in everything

There's not enough room to list all the DSS-8 features, but
here's a sample:

* AmigaDOS 2.0. 68020 and 68030 compatibility.

* Multi-tasking operation.

* Intuitive graphic interface for easy self-teaching.

* MIDI-in capability.

* Direct sequencer to editor interfacing.

* On-screen sample dipfay of up to 31 samples.
■fc HLTF1 recording for high quality- playback.

* Multiple effects for each note.

* Real time oscilloscope ;md spectrum analysis.

~k Grapliic editing and freehand drawing of waveforms.

~k Direct editing of individual sample numeric values.

■*■ Sampling maximums of 51,000/sec (mono) 38,908/sec. (stereo).

* Saves in IFF, SONDE and RAW formats.

•k SoundTracker, Noise Tracker and SoundFX compatibility.

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V E R S C A N

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...

The more things change in the Amiga industry, the more you need to know.

For instance, you should know that Octree has changed locations (see new address
on p. 104) and has picked up Ditek's DynaCADD 2-D/3-D design program for distribu-
tion. The program is weil suited to work with Octree's own Caligari 3-D modeling,
animation, and rendering software. According to Octree, you can "design in Calrgari,
follow up with precision design in DynaCADD, and then animate and render in Cali-
gari." DynaCADD, which has a suggested retail price of $995, is available for S499 (plus
$30 shipping and handling) from Octree. (RS# 122.)

The developer of Video Music Box has also made two changes; in its name and its
product. The Menasha, Wisconsin, developer has changed its name from Digital Expres-
sions to Digital Expressions Research. The change was necessary because, unknown to
the Wisconsin firm, an established games manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, had previ-
ously reserved the name Digital Expressions. Product changes come in the form of
Video Music Box 1.4 (SI 09), which adds Workbench 2 compatibility, new parameters for
controlling pitch ranges and randomization, editing functions, and more. The upgrade is
free for registered users. (RS# 123.)

Lissa 1.2, the 3-D curve generator from Technical Tools (S35), produces more com-
plex objects than before (you can create "wiggles within wiggles"), supports more mod-
elling packages, and offers an enhanced interface, with icons for frequently-used con-
trols and more comprehensive help features. The upgrade is free to registerd owners.
(RS# 124.)

ASDG's ADPro just keeps getting more capable. The latest module ($200), aimed at
video professionals, allows you to exchange digital images stored on 8mm cartridge
tapes between an Amiga (equipped with a Commodore SCSI controller and Exabyte
8mm tape drive) and an Abekas A60, A65, or A66 digital-disk recorder. You don't have
an Abekas system, but need to send work to a post-production house that does? You
can create digital video streams (essentially treating the tape drive as a single-frame
recorder). (RS# 125.)

Also expanding the Amiga's video capabilities \s Interactive MicroSystems. The firm's
MediaPhile video-editing setup now provides support for Sony VISCA protocol decks as
well as VBOX control for Sony CTL-L/LANCS-port decks and camcorders through the
Amiga's serial port. (RS# 126.)

MIDI Sample Wrench 2.0, the updated 16-bit sound editor from dissidents ($299),
gives musicians, audio engineers, and videographers a toolbox-full of new options. The
software works with a variety of MIDI keyboards as well as IFF samples, and it reads and
writes several file formats.

The new Wrench promises extensive waveform-viewing options, from overviews to a
few points, and you can calibrate waveforms in terms of sample points, seconds, or
SMPTE frames. It also includes more advanced digital signal-processing features, as well
as resynthesis tools that let you expand or compress waveforms in time without chang-
ing pitch. The program works with DOS versions 1.3 and higher, and is linkable via
ARexx. Registered owners of earlier versions can upgrade for S20. |RS# 127.)

Designed with the developer in mind, version 2.0 of ARexxDB (S125) is the "records
manager for the serious Amiga user," according to JMH Software. In addition to ARexx
support, the program offers new features that include record searching, automated
indexing, a query language, and a utility for creating files. ARexxDB is a database engine
that you can easily customize, and it imposes no upper limit on either file or record size.
With ARexx DB, you can develop database applications using your own custom inter-
face. (RS# 128.)

EasyScript has upgraded some of its products, including LabelDex! ($74.95),
which now promises an easy way to make professional-looking video and audio
cassette labels for cassette splines and faces. This integrated VideoLibrarian module
supports HP LaserJet, DeskJet, Epson, and PostScript-compatible printers.

BibleReaderProl, which replaces BibleReader!, includes an 800,000-word concor-
dance, supports Amiga speech, does not require a hard drive, and comes in four ver-
sions (KJ, Nl, NKJ, and NASB), each selling for $89.95.

The higher-end BibleScholar! supports speech, too, with version 2.0, It also comes
in PAL and NTSC display versions, and offers a 640x400 interlace display. Further, you
can fetch search results with the click of a button. (RS# 129.)

OVERHEARD

Workbench 2. 1 is already shipping with
lhc Amiga 600, and it's destined to be-
come available for other Amigas. (Com-
modore has not yet settled on a release
date for upgrade kits.) So what can you
look Forward to in 2.1? There are several
brand-new features, including CrossDOS,
the favorite MS-DOS/AmigaTJOS-format
transfer utility which now also allows access
to MS-DOS formatted floppy and hard
disks.

The new Local Preferences editor lets
you read screens of 2.04-supporting soft-
ware in any of several languages. An in-
staller utility, which automatically inte-
grates the new Workbench on your system,
also comes with this release, as do printer
drivers for PostScript devices and Canon's
Bubbiejet.

Another printer driver, for the HP
Deskjet, has been enhanced since the 2.0
release: it now supports the popular HI 1
500 Color DeskJet. Other enhancements
include simplified installation and activa-
tion of printers, keymaps, monitors, and
DOS drivers. The Format and DiskCopy
functions now provide graphical interfaces
that allow vou control.

True Color Prints

No longer is your printer limited to
4096 colors and 16 shades oT gray.
TruePrint/24 (ASDG, $89) prints 16-mi'l-
lion color (24-bit) and 256-shade
grayscale (eight-bit) images on most
Preferences-supported color or black-
and-white printers. Capable of out-
putting images at any size (even poster
proportions), TruePrinl/24 offers 1 1
dithering and halftoning techniques, in-
cluding a 32-shade gray-scale for such
character-only devices as daisy-wheel
printers. (RS# 111.)

w ( *-'

Without TruePrint/24, the Amiga OS Is
limited to 16 shades of gray (left); with
it, 256 shades are possible.

12 November 1992

IGA BASICS...

External FDD Series

• Compatible with all Amiga" computers
■ Slim-line design with solid metal case

• Additional drive connector and on/off switch

Opto-Mechanical Mouse Series

Precise cursor control - 290 dpi resolution
Stylish and ergonomic design
Top quality construction with
micro-switch buttons

Cordless Infrared Mouse Series

■ High power infrared transmitter with a 4-foot range

■ LED indicators on receiver reflect every mouse action

■ Includes long-life maintenance free rechargeable battery
• Precise cursor control - 280 dpi resolution

ALFA
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ErgononwDesign Trackball Series

■ Compalifale with all Amiga computers

■ Ergonomic design for comfortable operation

■ Top quality construction with micro-switch buttons

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OVERSCAN

Haitex Hails Harlequin

Haitex Resources, maker of X-Specs 3-D stereo-vision glasses, now distributes the
long-awaited Harlequin 32-bit framebuffer from Amiga Centre Scotland. The board,
available in NTSC as well as PAL display formats, promises to coexist with Great Valley
Products' IV24 and NewTek's Video Toaster, and it fits into either an A2000 or A3000. It
comes in several memory configurations, from 1.5 to 4MB of RAM. It provides compos-
ite RGB output and an optional alpha channel, both of which you can toggle via soft-
ware. Harlequin comes with lots of software, including a program that lets you scale and
convert images to other formats, and a real-time 24-bit slide-show program with over 30
transitions. Among outside products that support Harlequin directly are Imagemaster
(Black Belt), ADPro (ASDG), Real 3D (Activa) and Caligari Broadcast (Octree). (RS# 131.)

Get in Touch

Why point and click when you can reach and touch? The CT-Amiga driver
(Carroll Touch) lets you use infrared touch screens with your Amiga. The driver
both emulates the Amiga's mouse and allows a mouse and touch screen to operate
concurrently. Compatible with Amiga Vision, the driver is free with the purchase of
the company's scanning infrared touch frames, which include systems for 14-inch
Zenith ZCM-14.92 flat-tension and Mitsubishi AUM-1381A Diamontlscan moni-
tors. (RS# 110.)

Climbing the Family Tree

No matter how prolific your ancestors were, The Puzzle Factory claims that its ge-
nealogical database, Origins ($85), is up to keeping track of them. In addition to cata-
loging over six million relatives. Origins can track multiple marriages, step-children, un-
married parents, and other unorthodox situations. You can print reports on people, family
group sheets, pedigree and descendants charts, and Tiny-Tafel listings, as well as import
and export GEDCOM formatted data. To help you connect faces with names, Origin even
stores IFF images. (RS# 114.)

Accountant Not Included

Bring your business's books on line with Business Front (Designing Minds,
$129). Featuring General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable
modules, ibis business accounting program can handle up to 32,500 records per
iile, provides password protection, carries balances from year to year, and allows
periodic and fiscal compaction. In the General Ledger you can define a chart of
accounts, assign account and subaccount numbers for job costing, and print the
customizable reports.

Accounts Receivable oilers automatic interest calculations for overdue payments,
aging reports, user-definable terms of sale, automatic discounts based on payment
terms, and complete customer information. Accounts Payable features aging reports,
bills due reports, a check register of transactions, and the ability to mark bills for partial
or fiill payment and to search for payments by index or vendor number. (RS# 117.)

Officlul Immigration

Long a popular import, the AMOS programming language is now available in an NTSC ver-
sion — American AMOS (S1 10). Featuring more than 500 commands, the language is optimized
for graphics and sound manipulation, and, with the new version, no screen-size adjustments are
needed. Europmss Software has also set up a US technical support line (219/874-6380) and BBS
(219/874-0367) to give AMOS users easier access to customer support. (RS# 118.)

Memory Magic

Offering support of up to one gigabyte of virtual memory, GigaMem (Pre'Spect
Technics) gives welcome relief to systems with lilled-to-bursting RAM by swapping
data from memory to either a hard-disk file or partition. To optimize perform-
ance, the program supports caching and monitors memory-access frequency for
more intelligent memory swapping. GigaMem runs on all accelerated systems
with MMUs and promises to work with all hard-drive controllers. For use with
Pre'Spect Technics' ALF 3 Oktagon controller, GigaMem sells for S98; for all
other controllers, the price jumps to £149. (RS# 1 19.)

Faster than the
Emergency Room

Whether your (loppy disks are failing or
your hard drive needs help, Moonlighter
Software Development has the right
medicine. Ami-Back Tools' (S79.95)
medical bag includes GP, a disk optimizer;
Disk Analyst, a program that checks disks
for potential problems and then makes
the appropriate repairs; 91 1 -Recovery, a
specialist in recovering deleted files and
data from crashed disks; Antiseptic, a disk
wiper that clears everything horn your
disks: and Lab Test, a utility thai checks
and compares checksums for file corrup-
tion and virus protection. Overseeing
these programs is the Administrator in-
terface, which lets you set up, schedule,
and perform whatever tests you desire.
(ES# 120.)

Follow the Stars (and
Satellites)

If you're in search of space-science
software, ihe chances are thai Kinetic De-
signs has the righl program For you. The
company's collection of public domain
and shareware programs includes satel-
lite trackers, planetary-orbit calculators,
siderial-timc calculators, weather-related
programs, deep-sky databases, gravity
simulations, telescope designs, and space-
art. A complete catalog of programs is
available, at a cost of only a self-ad-
dressed envelope with two stamps, while
Amiga Space 12pak, a 12-disk compila-
tion of programs, will run you $29.95.
(RS# 116.)

Make Your Point

A 3-D object editor and converter. Ver-
tex (The Art Machine, S40) oilers all the
standard object-editing tools (including
single-point editing), plus more exotic
distortion options, such as multiply, scale
map, twist, randomize, and gravity. In
addition, you can bevel fonts, create 3-D
fractal objects, separate and combine ob-
jects, cut windows, and add face and
edge divisions. For further customiza-
tion, the program has an ARexx port.
On the conversion side, vertex supports
Imagine, Turbo Silver, Light Wave 3D,
Sculpt 3D, Geo, and W'avefront formats.
(RS# 121.)

Overscan is compiled by Barbara Gefvert,
Linda Laflamme, and Tim Walsh. Send your
news, new products, and network informa-
tion to Overscan, AmigaWortd Editorial, 80
Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. ■

14 November 1992

Tis the Season

to be
Entertained...

Formerly AmigaWorld Videos

Sit back and be entertained by award-winning animations, from professional and

novice animators alike. Or learn how you can be more creative and productive with

the best selling software and hardware products available for the Amiga.

Chranos DV15 History of the Amiga DV12

New Release! Brealhtaking 70mm cin- An intriguing and entertaining look at the

ematography captures the timelessness origins ot the Amiga computer. Listen to

of Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Athens' the initial trials and tribulations which Jay

Animation Vol. I dvio

The original AmigaWorld Animation
Video that will fascinate, entertain and
inspire viewers as it demonstrates the
amazing capabilities of Amiga anima-
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AnimationVol.il DV1 1

AmigaWorld's editors do it again. Excit-
ing, innovative animations using pro-
grams such as Lightwave 3D. Imagine,
Sculpt-Animate 4-D, and DeluxePaint 111.
You'll be thoroughly entertained by these
animated stories. 90 minutes. S24.95

1 989 Best of the Fests DV17

A film festival in a box! Award winning an-
imation, comedy, documentary and ex-
perimental shorts. 90 minutes. $29.95

The Mind's Eye DV13

A compelling look at the universe, utilizing
the talents of over 300 top computer an-
imation artists with music composed by
James Reynolds. 40 minutes. S1 9.95
Beyond the Mind's Eye DV14

This is a case where the sequel is even
better than the original. Coming in
October. Soundtrack by Jan Hammer.
40 minutes. $19.95
Best of the Fests 1991 DV18

More award-winning animation, comedy,
drama, experimental and documentary
short films from 1991's top international
Film Festivals.90 minutes. $29.95

Acropolis, Mont St. Michel, the Arc de
Triomphe, the Vatican and over 50 other
locations. 40 minutes. $19.95

Green Toons DV16

Just released! Entertainment with a con-
science! 14 humorous, pointed and
beautiful short films by North American
animators. 45 minutes. S19.95
Animation of the Apocotypse DV19
Eight astounding independent visions of
doom, revelations, and the end of the
world! 60 minutes. $24.95

Miner, R.J. Mical, Caryn Mical, Dale
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Tony Vegas' Animated Acidburn
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Aural and visual absorblion. Transcen-
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lax. Animations for you to tune into from
the early 1980's. 60 minutes, $24.95

New Releases, Updates and Prices.

Amiga Animation Hollywood Style DV50
New Release! Learn classic, Hollywood, Dis-
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Disney Animation Studio, from renowned Ami-
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New Releases from Desktop Images!
The NewTek Video Toaster 2.0 Tutorial Series

Video Toaster Essentials DV51 The first of
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ToasterPaint Essentials DV52 Discover
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through each of its powerful functions step by
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ToasterCG Essentials DV53 A step-by-
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Professional Techniques DV54 Get more
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The Toaster 2,0 Essentials Bundle Pack
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Killer Graphics: Real Time Solutions With
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Volume I. This tutorial series will teach you how
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the most current version of DCTV. using real
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The Amiga Primer DV64

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your Amiga. Including setup, Workbench,
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must lor every Amiga owner. 90 minutes
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Amiga Graphics, Second Edition DV61
Learn the ethics ol style and how to use the
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Desktop Video, Volume I DV62

The best tape for getting started with Desktop
Video. Excellent advice from experts, including
Academy Award winning director Terry Saun-
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Desktop Video, Volume II DV63

More help en understanding Desktop Video
with the Amiga. Includes direct comparisons ot
tape lormats. NewTek's Toaster, Lightwave 3D,
DPaintlV, DCTV, Virtual Reality, and 24-bil ren-
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How To Animate I New Price! DV58

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using DeluxePaint! V from Joel Hagen, and us-
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Hot Rod Your Amiga DV57

New low price! This update will assist you in
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DeluxePaint IV Video Guide DV59

In easy to follow, step by step fashion, you'll ex-
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Advanced Techniques
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Videomaker, The Video Series DV65

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Desktop Video. Master's Edition DV55
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The Magic of Music and Midi DV56

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Legibility

Readability

Typographic clarify comes in two fla-
vor*: legibility ana readability. Even
though much of the typographic
community treats them as such, they
are not Interchangeable terms. Differ-
ent typefaces have varying degrees of
legibility; while typography should be
readable.

Studios and Reports

Most of us have heard about legi-
bility and readability studies and their
resulting reports. You know, the or>es
that typopniles refer to when they dis*
cuss legibility or readability, and sup-

fiosedly answer all questions about
hese Two topics. Wetl, referring to
Ihese reports and actually trying to use
k- L £? ^ft^ PT?^ c ° ri5,de "7 d 4 '° Ibem con bo two very diffemnT things,
be the ablhry lo distinguish one letter )f> foct Ju5 , MnQ to f^ rhem b ^fa.
from another In a particular
lypefoce design. Readability,
on fhe other hand, is the de
gree at ease with which ty-
pography can be read. As a
result. It Is possible to use a
highly legible typeface and
create unreadable ty-
pography. Whfle carefully
constructed, readable ty-
pography cannot restore
missing legibility to a type-
face design, if can enhance
the message presented by a
less than kJeaE typeface.

For practical purposes,
definitions are not oil thai impoi
lant. What ts Important Is that you
ore aware of the factors that can
affect fypefoce legibility, and the
ways reodabfflry con be enhanced -
or reduced -- through typographic ar-
rangement;

cut!.

They are not in neatty bound vol-
umes readily purchased at the local
bookstore. Chances ore, unless you
Sve in a big city, your public library
doesn't have them. Teachers of the
communication arts do not often
make them available to the* stu-
dents, and manufacturers of fype-
, settlna and printing equipment do
not Include them in their corpo-
rate libraries,

So what and where are
these mythical studies? For
the most port, they were
published as articles In
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drawing.

Professional Draw 3.0

Gold Disk, S 199.95.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.

Accelerator compatible.

Minimum system: 2MB RAM, hard drive.

Recommended system: 2MB RAM, hard drive, ARexx.

Structured

drawing

and Post*

Script file

manipulation.

ProVector 2.1, PSImport 1.0

Stylus Inc., S299.95/S89.95.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.

Accelerator compatible; FFP version included.
Minimum system: 1MB RAM.
Recommended system: 1MB RAM, ARexx.

Both Professional Draw 3.0 and ProVector 2.1
implement structured drawing and Post-
Script, but with different emphasis. WhilePro-
lessional Draw 3.0 excels at structured draw-
ing, ProVector 2.1 proves to be the most help with
PostScript output and exchanges.

Professional to the Core

Pro Draw has, arguably, the best user interface of
any personal computer for creating Be/ier curves.
In Pro Draw, unlike other programs, all the deselect-
ed anchor points and oars (the control points pro-
truding on cither side of a line) leave while after-
images on the gray background thai you can refer
to while you are dragging an oar or anchor point.
Similarly, when you drag an oar to alter the curve
of a line, yon can ctearlv see both the initial curve
and the new curve. Ifyou decide that you prefer the
original curve, simply press the Esc key to abort the
change Even the Mac's venerable Adobe Illustrator
doesn't offer this convenience.

So, what has version 3.0 brought to this superb
drawing tool? First, Pro Draw 8.0 finally has Undo
and Redo commands. In addition, it lets you import
24-bit bitmaps and rotate and scale them with the
same tools you use to manipulate drawings. You can
now double-click on the Rectangle tool to set a ra-
dius for rounded corners, 'lb speed screen redraws,
3.0 lets you keep some objects in wireframe format
while viewing others in WYSIWYG.

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One of the biggest additions is the Function
Genie tool, which allows vou to access mam' ARexx
scripts. When you execute one, a message explain-
ing what you should do next is displayed at the top
of the screen. One of these Genics moves only
selected points on a line, another allows you to
position an object at an exact layer, and so on. They
are very useful, but the Function Genie tool has
usurped the place of the Hand Move tool. The
latter was always a bit unpredictable, but it came iit
handy in case you needed to nudge a page a bit in
some direction.

Gold Disk has also improved text handling
somewhat. You can now edit text direcdy on the
page, although it goes a bit slowly. Creating a small
text file and importing it is usually the better
method — especially because Pro Draw still does
not have the ability to change a font once the text
is on the page. Ifyou want to change the font or
the tracking, you must delete the text and import
it again. One disappointment: Because the manual
stated that you can access characters from the ex-
tended character set by pressing the Alt key and
entering the ASCII value on the keypad, I thought
I would finally be able to use true left and right
double quotation marks, but, sadly, they are still
not available.

The FonlManager program supplied with Pro
Draw 3.0 is an extremely valuable addition to the
package. It allows you to convert Type l PostScript
louts into Compugraphic format, which vou can
use for high-quality screen displays and dot-matrix
printouts with both Pro Draw and Professional
Page. Ifyou want to use PostScript clip an. however,

2i> November 1992

Pro Draw will not help yon; on the oilier hand,
ProVector will.

Rhythm of a Different Drummer

ProVector 2.1 is a breed of its own. Most structured
drawing programs won't let yon work in WYSIWYG
mode, but in ProVector, you do everything in that
mode, with all the colors and line weights displayed.
Contrary to the norm, ProVector has no wireframe
mode. Most structured-drawing programs require
an extra step to make a corner when you draw
curved lines. ProVector's primary drawing tool op-
erates in the reverse fashion: Yon have to go back
and adjust your curved line (a simple enough pro-
cedure) if you want your line joins to be contiguous
or tangential. Alternatively, its Smooth Polygon tool
automatically creates averaged smooth curves for
your whole line (you do not have to drag anything
while you are drawing the line). You can later edit
the oars a bit.

ProVector's drawing tools are unusual, but they
have a surprisingly pleasant feel to them, especially
the primary drawing tool. When you drag the
mouse, you drag out an oar from the previous an-
chor point; when you let go, the oar from the cur-
rent point is attached to your cursor. Click again to
put it in position. The Rectangle tool can actually
create polygons with any number of sides, and, like-
wise, the Circle tool can generate arcs and pie-
shaped wedges. The program comes with some
ready-made pattern (Ills and allows you to create
vour own (displaving dtem slows down the program).
You can also control ProVector via ARexx to auto-
matically build graphs and charts from databases.

While its tools for creating graphs, charts, dia-
grams, and simple illustrations are excellent, I
found several of ProVector's line-editing procedures
difficult. When I "uncurve" a point on a line, I ex-
pect the oars to retract into the point, and not trans-
form into additional points. Similarly, the Make
Curve command does not cause oars to spring out
of the point; instead, it turns the two adjacent points
into oars. Luckily, the supplied ARexx macros offer
an alternative to these methods.

ProVector has some other convenient features:
You can scale or rotate an object simply by typing a
Dumber and ending with the appropriate keystroke.
You can set any number of undo levels and cut and
paste from multiple windows. You can put elements
of your drawing on separate layers and temporarily

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Two approaches for an interface to structured drawing:
Professional Draw (top) and ProVector 2.1 (bottom).

hide them, as in a CAD program. The Change tool
lets you be very specific about painting a particular
object with the current default settings or vice versa,
In the case of merged objects (objects with holes in
them), however, the default settings I made seemed
to affect the object immediately, rather than waiting
for the signal from the Change tool.

PostScript Pro

Pro\ ector 2.1 "s exemplary PostScript skills come from
an add-on module called PSImport, which lets you
import PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript files.
For my many test drawings, the module has per-
formed very well. If it encounters an unfamiliar com-
mand, it displays an error message. When you click
Okay, it continues importing the file. ProVector 2.1
cannot recognize filled open objects, so it closes them
by drawing a border all the way around. Similarly, it
cannot recognize lines with caps other than joins, so
it simplifies those lines when il encounters them.

The module also imports 1'ostScript Iype 1 fonts,
but without kerning information and at somewhat
the wrong aspect ratio. The Stylus representatives —
who were very helpful in answering technical-sup-
port questions — said that the developers were work-
ing on solving these problems.

The differences between ProVector's and Pro*-

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Draw's PostScript support becomes apparent when you try to
import a Pro Draw PostScript print ("tie into ProVector. Pro
Draw's PostScript file can address only 100 steps of gradation,
while ProVector can address PostScript's full 25(i steps. For ex-
ample, if you want a light-blue sky gradation as a background,
Pro Draw will show visible steps in it, while ProVector will not.
Before saving the PostScript (or Encapsulated PostScript) file
from Pro Draw, you should convert all lines to Fiiled/No-Line-
Weight objects; you can reset the line weights and colors after
you import the tile into ProVector.

So using ProVector with PSImport, you can access the art cre-
ated by Professional Draw and all of the PostScript dip art avail-
able in the Mac and MS-DOS markets. Just be sure, when you
are using small text and detailed illustrations, to use the fast
floating-point-math version of ProVector for greater accuracy.
Also, note that ProVector 2.1 lacks the ability to describe the
screen density and angle lor Linotronic black-and-white prints.

Overall, Professional Draw 3.0 rates an A+ for its drawing abil-
ity, but gets poor marks for communication because it cannot
read PostScript files. In the same vein, (iolcl Disk is not helping to
open channels of communication bv releasing an MS-DOS l*ro-
fessional Draw that cannot read the files from its Amiga cousin.

If you want to import PostScript clip art into a desktop-pub-
lishing program, ProVector 2.1 and PSImport is certainly the
combination for you. While I have criticized some of its draw-
ing procedures, ProVector applies good, innovative ideas to
structured drawing.

—Jim Silks

A2386SX Bridgeboard

Commodore Business Machines, S9S9.

A2000, A3000/A3000T.
Internal IBM slot.
Installation: moderate.
Hard-drive installable

software.
Not copy protected.

2.0 compatible.
Minimum system: 1MB

of RAM.
Recommended system:

1+MBofRAM.

Emulates an IBM 2386SX; runs MS-DOS and Windows software

T A 7hen the Amiga 2000 was released in 1987, Commodore
VV supplied PC compatibility via an internal board that
"bridged" the machine's Amiga-only and PC-only slots. The
(irst Bridgeboard provided a 4. 77-MHz XT-compatible PC.
The A2286 Bridgeboard upped the ante with an 8-MHz AT-
compatible connection to the PC world. Commodore's
latest offering, the A2386SX, propels the Bridgeboard squarely
into the 90s.

Rev It Up

The A2386SX, which is available in either a 16- or 20-MHz
configuration, provides you with the power to use the plethora
of IBM-compatible software currently available. Included on
the board is a socket for an optional 80'i87SX math coproces-
sor; one megabyte of RAM (with room to expand to eight
megs); a batteiy-backed-up real-time clock and calendar; the
ability to use your existing Amiga drives simultaneously with
both AmigaDOS and MS-DOS; an external connection for at-
taching a standard Amiga external disk drive for the Bridge-
board's exclusive use; a speaker; and a four-pin DIN connector
that the manual states can be used for future external control
options.
Software is the fuel that makes the A2386SX flv. The board ■

22 November 1992

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comes with MS-DOS 5.0 (including a
manual) and version 2.0 of the [anus

software. Janus emulates the PC key-
board on the Amiga; allows the Bridge-
board tn access a printer connected to
the Amiga's parallel port; utilizes a stan-
dard Amiga monitor to create PC MDA
mono or CGA color video displays in an
AmigaDOS window; creates a "virtual"
PC hard drive on an Amiga hard disk or
allows access to up to seven Amiga par-
titions on a PC hard disk; uses the Amiga
mouse with PC programs: and copies
files between the PC and Amiga. Janus
2.0. compatible with both AmigaDOS

1.3 and 2.0, adds Amiga software to
share an Amiga printer connected to the
serial port and the "flipper" software
needed to share an Amiga disk drive
with the PC.

The Bridgeboard installation should
not be difficult if you fee! comfortable
putting internal expansion boards in
your Amiga. While the manual contains
excellent instructions for installing the
board in the Amiga 2000, 3000. or
3000T, it cautions that your warrant)' is
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I had no difficulty installing the
A2386SX. The first step was to decide
the types of disk drives I wanted to use.
I opted to share the Amiga's dfl : drive
and set the A2386SX's jumpers accord-
ingly. I next installed the supplied cable
between dfl : and the A2386SX and in-
serted the board in my A'2000's first
three-slot bridge connector. An impor-
tant design difference between the
A2386SX and the A2286 AT bridge is
that the former has no daughterboard.
Where the A2286's daughterboard cov-
ered the adjacent slot, the A2386SX
leaves it free for use.

Installing the [anus software and cre-
ating a virtual PC hard disk on my Ami-
ga hard drive was even easier. Janus 2.0
uses the new Commodore installer to
copy all of the required files to their
proper spots on the Amiga boot disk. If
you want a virtual hard drive, the in-
staller asks you for the desired si/.e and
then automatically creates it. This is a
significant improvement over the previ-
ous version of Janus, which required you
to perform the installation manually.
Janus 2.0 also uses an improved PCPrefs
to configure the PC video display, turn
the PC speaker on or off, and configure
the PC disk drives.

Getting the PC side of the house up
and running was also a snap. The first
time you use the A2386SX, you need to
establish the PC configuration using the
built-in set-up utility, which configures
the A2386SX's clock/calendar, disk
drives, video, speed, and memory. After
you've established the board's configura-
tion, you reboot the PC and insert the
MS-DOS install disk. MS-DOS 5.0 auto-
matically looks at your configuration,
formats the hard drive and installs itself
on the newly formatted drive.

Operation Normal

The A2386SX is one speedy little PCI
Commodore supplied a 20-MHz version
of the board for testing. According to
Norton Utilities' SI program, a leading
benchmark for testing PC speed, the
A2386SX ran at 21.4 times the speed of
an IBM XT Ebr comparison, I ran SI on
an IBM 386SX clone running at 16
MHz. SI rated the clone at a 17.6.

I noticed a speed lag on the A2386SX
only when using the Amiga's video to
emulate a CGA color PC screen. This is
understandable, because the video is
passed from the PC to the Amiga. The
problem was completely solved by
adding an inexpensive VGA card to one
of my Amiga's PC slots and connecting
a multisync monitor. With the advent of
Windows-based software, a VGA adapter
is nearly a necessity with the Bridge- «

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board. The addition of" a VGA card also
solved a bug in Janus 2.0's color display
thai causes the window to resize to a half
screen every time a program changes
graphics modes. (Commodore reports it
is working on a less expensive solution to
this problem.)

I tested a variety of PC software, includ-
ing WordPerfect 5.1, Microsoft's Flight
Simulator, Microsoft Excel, and the PC
version of Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint, as
well as Windows 3.0. I was unable to test
Windows 3.1 without a PC-compatible
high-density drive, because Microsoft was
unable to furnish a version on 720K disks

in time to complete this review. However,
another A23S6SX user with a high-den-
sity drive reports he is running Windows
3.1 without difficulty,

If you're looking to add PC compati-
bility to your Amiga's many talents, the
A2386SX is a stellar performer. At a list
price of $959, however, the Bridgeboard
competes with a complete IBM PC
386SX-compatible system bundled with
a VGA monitor and hard drive. Unless
desk space is truly critical, a complete
386SX-compatible system might be a
wiser investment.

— Bob Eller

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uses the low cost 68EC030 or the standard, MMU-bearing 68030. True asynchronous design supports
versions at 25MHz and 40MHz. Installs into the Amiga's 68000 socket (and the 68000 is re-installed in
VXL-30). Accepts the 68882 math chip. User upgradeable. Compatible with AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.04
systems. Cold-boot jumper selection as 68030 or as 68000. Warm boot software selection as 68030 or
68000. Supports separate VXL RAM-32 Memory board with 2 or 8 megabytes of Fast Page Mode
RAM with Burst capability. RAM autoconfigs in the Amiga FASTRAM space and is DMA-able; can be
mapped high; supports mapping Kickstart to 32-bit RAM even without MMU. RAM-32 has alternate
Ktckstart ROM socket for optional 2.04 ROM. RAM-32 is also accessible (16-bits wide) in 68000 mode.
Performance of VXL30/RAM-32 as a system is equal to an Amiga 3000 at 25MHz and about fifty
percent faster than an A3000 when a 40MHz processor and math chip are installed (speed
comparisons based on averaging of sixteen standard benchmarks in AIBB 4.5). Typical raytrace times
at 25MHz (using Impulse's Imagine) are sixteen limes faster than with the basic 68000. VXL-30 is the
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Entry-level word processing.

One of the Amiga's oldest word pro-
cessors, excellence! has never really
lived up to its name — until now. Version
3.0 may have finally reached world-class
status, at least among Amiga software.
Another recent update, Kindwords 3.0,
has not aged as well.

excellence! 3.0: A New Standard?

Sporting a new 2.0 look (even under
Workhench 1.3), excellence! is an attrac-
tive program. It opens a full-featured but
conservative ruler atop the screen and lets
vou toggle many display options, such as
margins, paragraph markers, and the
ruler. You configure its resolution from
the Preferences requester, excellence!
even has built-in support for virtual mem-
ory, so if you have a hard drive, you can
work on files greater than your available
memory would normally permit

Timed saves, one of the more signifi-
cant features added to version 3.0, are
handled elegantly. Besides specifying a
time interval for excellence! to save your
work, you can also tell it to warn you of
an impending save by beeping. If you
want to abort the save and avoid inadver-
tently overwriting important data, press
the Escape key. As a further precaution,
excellence! will back up the current file
before a timed save, and you can specify
as many back-up levels as you like. Now
you can even have an audit trail of large
documents that effortlessly retains every
incremental version in case you need to
go back to something written and "dis-
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26 November 1992

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Professional Digital Sound for
Your Video, Music, and Radio
Productions

Finally, true CD quality 16 bit audio
is available for your Amiga! SunRize's
new ADS 16 gives you eight tracks, plus a
time code reader and a DSP chip. Included
with the ADS 16 is Studio 16- version 2.0.
This new release of our popular 16 bit
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The ADS 16 hardware pro-
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Designed to exceptional audio
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Video Production

The Video Toaster goes a
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need to synchronize background music with
your productions? How do you add foot-
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sound effects to your video or
animation? Do you need to
fade, cross fade, or eliminate
sections of audio? Can you
edit your audio, or are you
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Studio 16 solves all these problems by
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The program is chock full of other
new features, as well. Bookmarks, a
handy addition, are the electronic equiv-
alent of paper scraps to tuck between im-
portant pages in a large document for
easy location. As for page-layout options,
what modern word processor would be
complete without multiple columns?
excellence! allows up to eight. It also in-
cludes a generously large dictionary and
thesaurus — not to mention a grammar
checker. (This review clocks in at an 1 1 th-
grade reading level, and 1 seem to use
fewer sentences in the passive voice than
tvpical life-insurance policies.) When

vou're readv to print, you can even see
what you are about to get with a page-
preview function.

One particularly nice feature is the
ability to work on a file with requesters
open. Usually, the spell checker or
find/replace requester locks yon out of
the word processor itself: in excellence!,
you can continue to edit the current doc-
ument while it is on screen.

One of the best reasons to buy excel-
lence!, however, is its ability to quickly
and easily generate an automatic table
of contents and index. This invaluable
function was previously available only

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excellence! 3,0's grammar checker
provides interactive output.

Kindwords 3 offers a large toolbox for
common commands.

in Amiga WordPerfect, an undesirable
choice for manv word-processing tasks.
excellence! is about as full-featured and
intuitive as you are likely to see on this
side of AmigaDOS. It even includes ex-
tensive macro support with ARexx and
an easy-to-use "Glossary" (a user stock-
pile of macro commands).

In a nutshell, excellence! does just
about everything you might want or ex-
pect in a word processor. It doesn't do ev-
erything perfectly, however. It cannot
change die case of words with a keystroke.
Its Insert Literal function is marginal. It
doesn't show you what the actual charac-
ters are in a given font, but only what they
would be in the standard character
set — not terribly useful for finding the
penguin shape in your Symbols loin.
Lastly, I felt betrayed by the box, which
proudly proclaimed "ASL Compatible
Font/File Requesters." It turns ottt that ex-
cellence! doesn't actually use the ASL li-
brary at all. Instead, MSS has inexplicably
provided ASL look-alikes, preventing you
from using a single, standard requester in
all your Workbench 2.0 software.

Kindwords 3: Starter Kit

It would take very little tweaking to make

excellence! the finest electronic typewrit-

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Finally! True Cinematic Quality Morphing For The Amiga®!

ASDC is not the first to advertise
"cinematic quality morphing" for the
Commodore Amiga ' . Having seen
the other products, there's obviously
more than one way to define that
term.

To us, "cinematic quality morphing"
means these things:

• Morphing must be fast.

In a production environment, time is
money. ASDG's MorphPlus " is the
fastest morphing product available
for the Commodore Amiga".
MorphPlus' powers through
complicated full overscan morphs 3
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• Morphing must be easy.
Experts in the field praise the
intuitive design of the MorphPlus''
user interface which lets them create
sophisticated full motion morphs in
minutes instead of weeks.

•Morphing must be high quality

(so that it truly can be used for
cinematic or professional video
applications). MorphPlus" is already
in use in Hollywood productions,
replacing high end systems.

This is what we mean by "cinematic
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of this colorful machine.

VI November 1W2

BY LOU WALLACE

OR SEVERAL YEARS, Amiga users and developers
have been clamoring for a major upgrade to the Ami-
ga custom chips. During this lime, the Mac and MS-
DOS systems equaled, and (hen surpassed, the Ami-
ga's graphic-display system in terms ofboth resolution
and number of colors.

Because of the increased emphasis on multimedia
and desktop video, the Amiga's screen size, number of
colors and total palette became limiting factors. Al-
though ihird-parlv developers have lilted I he void with
Sophisticated 24-bit display cards, this hardware is
aimed mostly at static displays, is basically unsupported
by the Amiga's operating system, and has had little im-
pact on most of us in our day-to-day applications.

It has become evident that change is needed. And
I'm pleased to say dial dtis fall a real change is coming
to the Amiga. The lirsl sign of this renaissance is an en-
tirely new machine, die Amiga 4000! 'The first public
demonstration of the A4000 was scheduled last month
for the World of Commodore show in Pasadena.

The A4000 is the most significant upgrade to come
out of Commodore. It boasts main additions and
changes, the most significant of which concerns its
graphic display. The A4000 is the first of a new line
of Amigas to incorporate the AA (Advanced Architec-
ture) graphic chip set, which immensely expands the
Amiga's graphic potential. The AA (called "Double A")
chips are Alice, Lisa, and Paula. While Paula is essen-
lially unchanged, the other two are full replacements
for the Agnus and Deni.se chips.

A4000 Specifics

The A4000 is the first in a new line of Amiga comput-
ers to take advantage of these new chips. It is also the
first Amiga to be based on the 08040 processor. Inter-
estingly, there is no CPU on the motherboard. Instead,
the A4000 CPU resides on a plug-in card that installs
in the 200-pin processor slot. This approach means
that the 32-bit A4000 is completely configurable — at
the dealer level.

While the initial version is a 25-MHz 68040, as other
processor cards become available, von will be able to buy
(or upgrade to) faster 68040s, custom CPUs, or even fu-
ture high-performance processors like the 68060.

Internally, the A4000 has four Amiga Zorro II/III
slots as well as three PC/AT slots. As with earlier mod-
els, though, using some PC slots precludes using other
slots for Amiga cards. As in the A3000, the video slot
is in line with one of the Amiga slots. This arrange-
ment will encourage development of specialty video
cards (much like Great Valley Products' IV24 multime-
dia/ video package).

The CPU case is a bit larger than that of the A3000,
but not as big as the A2000's. There is room inside for
two floppy drives and two hard disks; an external flop-
py connector is available for more drives. In addition,
the front drive bay can accommodate a 5.25-inch disk
device, allowing you to mount large internal hard
drives, CD-ROMs, or other removable media.

A 120MB IDE hard disk is standard. Lor those who

want access to SCSI devices, an optional 32-bit SCSI-11
controller card will be available. Interestingly, the includ-
ed floppy drive is a high-density 3.5-inch unit that can
read and write in either 880Kor 1 ,7MB modes, and can
read and write to standard MS-DOS formatted disks.

Like the A3000, memory expansion in the A4000 al-
lows a total of 18MB on the motherboard — two megs
of chip and 16 megs of 32-bil RAM. You can add more
via plug-in cards. The base configuration of the A4000
includes 2MB of chip RAM and 4MB of 32-bit RAM,
although this is subject to change.

AmigaDOS 3.0

These hardware improvements and additions require
new software to take advantage of them. Not surprising-
ly, the operating system shipped with the A4000 is a new
release called Amiga DC )S 3.0. h is an enhanced version
of the 2. 1 OS, introduced on the .Amiga 600, and it in-
cludes all the 2. 1 features, plus support for the A\ chips
and their new color and screen-resolution features.

New to OS 2.1/3.0 is the addition of CrossDOS, a
program by Consul tron that lets you easily read and
write data between Amiga and MS-DOS disks. Printer
Preferences now supports PostScript directly, and new
printer drivers have been added. A Sound Preferences
editor lets you customize your system with the sound
effects of your choice. Also, a Local Preference editor
lets you tell the system what language to use in its mes-
sages and text displays (use the language library of
your choice). This feature should bolster the interna-
tional appeal of the Amiga. (AmigaWorld will address
new operating-system features further in future issues.)

Commodore says that AmigaDOS 3.0 will, for the
lime being, be limited to the A4000 and other AA ma-
chines. That's reasonable, as the unique features of 3.0
are designed to take advantage of the new chip set.
AmigaDOS 2.1, however, is another story. Any Amiga
that can use the 2.04 version can take advantage of 2. 1.
Look for an upgrade path at some future date, as yet
unspecified by Commodore.

Over the Rainbow

With the A\ chips, you can forget about yesterday's
4096 color palette. These chips feature a full 24-bit
palette, which gives you access to any of 16,777,216
colors for use in your screens. The total number of col-
ors on screen will depend on how many bitplanes you
use and on the display mode. You can create screens
using one to eight bitplanes, which translates into two
to 256 colors at once. Most importantly, there is no
limit on the number of colors you can use in the var-
ious screen resolutions.

While current Amigas allow up [o 32 colors in low
resolution, 16 colors in high resolution, and four colors
in Productivity and SuperHires modes, the AA chips
have no such limitations. With eight bitplanes, every
screen can use up to 256 different colors, a fact that you
will appreciate even more when we discuss how many
new displays and resolutions are available.

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some applications, the AA chips have yet another color
surprise in store. Remember how the Amiga's HAM
(Hold And Modify) niode was able to create Stunning
low-resolution images using all 4096 colors with the
older chips? Well, the new chips have their own eight-
bit HAM display mode, which lets you create images
that use over 256,000 colors simultaneously.

The AA HAM mode has 6-1 base colors instead of the
16 available in the earlier HAM displays. This means
that software can minimize the fringing thai often
accompanies HAM displays. And, as with the stan-
dard color modes, you can use AA HAM mode with
any screen, regardless of resolution.

imagine a 640x480 display with 256,000 colors!
Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Now try imagining
640x960, or 800x600 or 1 280x400 with dial many col-
ors! Then add overscan. Are you excited yet?

Exotic Resolutions

The A4000's AA chips oiler all the standard Amiga
NTSC and PAE screen sizes that ihe original and later
ECS chips support. These include the original displays
of 320x200, 320x400, (540x200, and 640x400 with or
without overscan. Also included are the l-X'.S 640x480
and 640x960 Productivity mode and 1280x200 and
1 280x400 SuperHires modes. AA chips go even further
with their Super72 modes, including a verv nice 800x600
display. And, these resolutions do not include the extra
display area you gel when you use overscan modes.

In fact. Commodore engineers are now defining
even more screen resolutions. These new chips are pro-
grammable: You can vary the horizontal and vertical
screen sizes in a great variety of ways, so man}' more
exotic displays are not only possible but vety likely. And
keep in mind that all screens can support up to 256 col-
ors (out of 16.7 million), as well as the phenomenal AA

The AA chips are used here to display multiple 32-color IFF images,

HAM displays of 256.000 colors. Ihe possibilities lor
artists, animators, multimedia producers, and desktop

vicleographers are monumental, especially when you
consider that all these feature's will now be standard on
the A4000 and all future Amigas.

Behind the Scenes

One feature that enables these new chips to create such

graphics is the bandwidth of the chips. Bandwidth
measures how fast inlbrmation can be processed, and
the new AA chips have a Ibm lold increase in bandwidth
over their predecessors. This increase does much more
than give you improved color resolution; it improves
the performance of the graphics as well.

Regardless of what processor yon have, when you
open a 16-color. overscan, hi-res interlaced screen in
your existing Amiga, your overall system performance
will degrade because so many of the Amiga's CPU cy-
cles are required to support [his display. Thanks to the
AA chips' increased bandwidth, however, such a display
performs as well on the A4000 as a two-color display:
It is fast and effective rather than sluggish and futile.
Oi course, even wilh [he new chips, using the maxi-
mum resolution along with the maximum number of
colors will cause a performance hit — but one not nearly
as pronounced as with the older chip set.

Sprites benefit from the extra bandwidth. Hie new
system allows sprites that are 16, 32, or 64 bits wide.
(The previous chips only allowed 16-bit-wide sprites.)
Game developers will be able to use these verv large,
yen' fast sprites instead of slower bitmap objects, also,
sprites (such as your pointer) can be set to various res-
olutions, independent of the screen resolution.

One chip missing from Commodore's newest ma-
chine is the A3000 display enhancer, which creates a
non-interlaced, llicker-free display. Because of the in-
creased bandwidth and programmability of" the chips,
software can define a deinterlaced, flicker-free screen,
provided vou use a multisync monitor. Examples of
these modes are the Productivity 640x480 and Super72
800x600 displays.

Bandwidth is not the only factor that contributes to
the chips' speed. Another important A4000 compo-
nent is 32-bit access to chip memory, instead of ihe 16-
bit access of earlier chips. This means that the proces-
sor can read and write data to chip RAM twice as fast.
Another feature of the system architecture, 32-bit page-
mode access, also means faster access to RAM.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Will you be able to upgrade your existing Amiga to the
AA chips? "The quick answer is no. AA chips are 32-bit
wide and not pin compatible with the earlier Amiga
chip sets. One possibility — which Commodore neither
confirms nor denies — is a motherboard upgrade. This
would require you to purchase and install a completely
new motherboard, designed for AA. While this is pos-
sible for the A3000 (which is a 32-bit system), it is a
much more difficult proposition for A2000s, A600s,
and A500s. Even if it does become available, though,
a drawback to the motherboard option is cost. Moth-
erboard replacement is often expensive enough to jus-
tify a new system. This will be an even bigger consid-
eration if other, less expensive AA machines appear.

There is, however, another force in the market that
can make such an upgrade feasible. "That is the ever-
creative third-party companies that often provide so-
lutions to "impossible" situations. 1 have no inside in-
formation about such upgrade scenarios, but experi-
ence leads me to expect them.

Impressions

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The grand master of
science fiction, Arthur
C. Clarke warns
Stanley Kubrick, "If
you get Vistapro into
your computer, you'll
never do any more
work! It produces
images of olmost
photographic quali-
ty... So I can explore
oil the interesting
places on Man!"

"I'm really boggled
- It's beautiful, espe-
cially when the lights
are off. I'm
awed by what >
have done!"

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2001: A Space
Odyssey

UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR
YOUR IMAGINATION!

Circle 58 on Reader Service card.

T H E A 4 (► ()

to endure is knowing about Commodore's plans, but
being restrained from talking about them. This has
been especially problematic lately, in the lace of much
speculation and commentary concerning a lack of de-
velopment for the Amiga line. I'm happy to report thai
there is much new technology coming from Com-
modore, and AmigaWorld will continue to bring that
news to you as soon as we can.

I am impressed with the AA chip set and am eager
to start using an A4000. The new displays will be a
boon to artists, multimedia producers, and desktop
videographers, and game developers should have a
field dav with the color, speed and resolution Double
A provides. So will the rest of us! ■

Applications for AA

torn: I ■ I

as !

Some new Preferences tools displayed in 256-color SuperHires.

A4000 Specifications

25-MHz 68040 CPU

Base machine includes 2MB chip RAM and 4MB

32-bil flAM
Up to 18MB RAM on motherboard; additional RAM

via RAM cards (to 1.7GB)
Upgradable CPU via 200-pin slot
120MB IDE hard disk
880KB/1 .7MB internal floppy
Supports four internal disk drives (two floppies and

two hard drives)
Four ZORRO ll/lll expansion slots
Three PC/AT expansion slots
Video-expansion slot
Full 32-bit system architecture
16.8-million color palette
Up to 256 simultaneous colors, plus 256,000 colors

using HAM display mode
Advanced Architecture (AA) Graphic Chip Set (Aiice,

Lisa and Paula)
Programmable display resolutions include 640x480,

640x960, 1280x400 and 800x600
Video overscan modes supported
All color modes available in all display resolutions
Flicker-free interlaced modes
AA chip set backward compatible with earlier ESC

chip set
Price: S3699

As you might expect, Com-
modore has been keeping de-
velopers informed of these
hardware changes, and quite
a few have been developing
products to take advantage of
the new features. While many
were not willing to "pre-an-
nounce" their work, others
were far enough along thai
they felt comfortable dis-
cussing their new AA products.
(To locate vendors of the prod-
ucts mentioned, see the "Man-
ufacturers'/Distributors' Ad-
dresses" list on p. 104.)

INOVAtronics is upgrading
its CanDo multimedia applica-
tion language and Directory
Opus file manager to support
AA machines. The firm also
promises a new, high-powered
text editor, as yet unnamed.

Scala tells us it will fully
support the AA chips in Scala
Multimedia 2.0 (scheduled to
ship this fall), a greatly en-
hanced version of the existing
Scala presentation software.
Included with the package is a
utility to create animations us-
ing the new eight-bit HAM
modes, which Scala can play.

New Horizons was sched-
uled to release ProWrite 3.3 at
last month's World of Amiga
show. This update will fully sup-
port all screen resolutions as
well as graphics with up to 256
colors. A new version of De-
signWorks, scheduled for a
Christmas release, will also
support the AA chips. New
Horizons also states that its
other packages, such as Quar-
terback, QuickWrite and
Flow, will work with AA, al-
though by the nature of their
tasks 1hey do not require the
extra color.

Impulse plans a free up-
grade for any registered Imag-
ine 2.0 owner with an AA-chip
machine. This new version will
support the extra modes and
resolutions. If you plan to get

an A4000 and have not al-
ready registered your copy of
Imagine, it is time to do so.

Octree, publisher of Cali-
gari 3-D products, is also
jumping on the AA bandwag-
on with Caligari 24. an up-
grade to Caligari 2. Octree is
excited by the new hi-res,
eight-bit HAM mode, which it
thinks will satisfy users who
really do not want or need a
full 24-bit framebuffer.

ASDGs ADPro image pro-
cessor and FRED (FRame
EDitor) animation utility al-
ready support AA. I used AD-
Pro to process 24- bit images
into both 256 color and eight-
bit HAM displays, and was
surprised to find that it would
already open the new screens
and display the images it cre-
ated. ASDG's Morph Plus will
aiso offer features based on
AmigaDOS 3.0.

Digital Creations' 24-bit
paint-and-animation package.
Brilliance (scheduled to ship
in fate October), uses every
display mode your system can
generate, including AA modes.

Soft-Logiks PageStream
is already designed to work in
the 256-color mode as long as
you open it on the Workbench.
The company plans further
enhancements to take advan-
tage of other AmigaDOS 3.0
features.

Gold Disk is upgrading
Professional Page and Pro-
fessional Draw to take advan-
tage of the new color modes.
The next release of Profes-
sional Page is scheduled tor
later this year; a Professional
Draw update will follow.

Electronic Arts' Deluxe-
Paint IV 4.5. which is expect-
ed this fall, will have full AA
chip support. A Deluxe Music
Construction Set update,
scheduled for release in early
winter, will also be compati-
ble with the new system. □

34 November 1992

PIECE
NEGOTIATIONS

CREATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE

By Steven BEaize

Where disparate images meet, an

interesting collage can result. Not,
however, without some finessing. Here
are some techniques you can use to
negotiate a successful work —
piece by piece.

A COLLAGE IS an artistic medium
used by professional artists and grade-
school kids alike. The hard-copy ap-
proach involves cutting and pasting vari-
ous pieces — pictures and other mater-
ials — to create an entirely new composition.
I lie digital approach involves combining images
rom various sources on screen.
Whether you create your collages by hand or by comput-
er, yon must carefully select each element so the final com-
position is a new work of art. The concept behind any good
design is to convey your message to the intended audience.
This is true whether your design is for business, television,
art, or feature film.

Although the selection of pieces is specific to each project,
I can offer pointers and assembly tips that can help you time
and time again. The examples I use to illustrate this article
are intended for video, but the techniques work equalh well
lor animation and print. Also, while my primary tools lor ere- »

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ating collages air AS DCs Art Department Professional
(ADPro), Digital Creations' DCTV, and Impulse's
I.iglu24, you can apply these same ideas to whatever
programs you use.

Picking Up the Pieces

Before beginning to assemble a collage on screen, you
need a source for your digital art. You can use any paint,
draw, or ,'i-D rendering program to create original an.
You can also employ dip-art disks, the purchase of
which generally gives you license to use the included
images. If you have a framegrabber or still digitizer, vou
can capture images from video, live sources, or static
pictures. In digitizing, keep copyright in mind; there
has been no clear definition of the impact of digital

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■4^ L ^i*

^Hk_ "^fl -

Figure 1. This composition is derived, in part, from the images
in Figure 2.

Figure 2. The DCTV-digitized dolphins, before stenciling (top)
and after.

composition and changes to copyrighted imagery. So be
1 anlul: II vou are digitizing a published piece of art or
video, you should gel permission to use it.

Once you have collected all the pieces you waul to in-
clude, you are ready to start cutting and pasting. Paint
programs such as Light24, Toaster Paint (NewTek),
MacroPaint (Lake Forest Logic/GVP) and DCTV Paint
allow you to work with images in 16.7 million colors (24-
bil), but require display hardware to provide ihis color
accuracy on the Amiga. (Each of these programs comes
packaged with the appropriate hardware.)

You really do not need special display hardware,
however, in order to create 24-bit collages. The Art De-
partment Professional and Image Master (Black Belt
Systems) are specifically designed for processing im-
ages in 2 1-bit color, but the\ do n< 11 require anything
beyond the Amiga's normal display. Ihis is a major
benefit, even if your final output will be lb-color or
HAM. (While Image Master comes packaged with
Black Belt's HAM-E display hardware — which it is es-
pecially suited to take advantage of — it is sold sepa-
rately, as is AD Pro.)

By combining your elements in full (24-bit) color,
you can mix multiple pictures, even HAM images,
without palette problems. Then you can render your
collage in 24-bit or in any of the standard Amiga
modes with an optimized color palette. (Native display
modes limit you in terms of palette: lb combine ele-
ments of two images in paint software, both must share
the same palette. If the images' palettes are different,
you must either convert one image to the other's
palette or change both to a third.)

You can also use programs such as Digi-Paint 3
(NewTek), DeluxePaint IN' (Electronic Arts), or Spectra-
Color (Oxxi) to combine Amiga-mode images — that is,
images that do not require a special device for uncom-
promised screen display. I suggest these programs be-
cause ihev provide transparency controls that are very
helpful for such things as see-through drop shadows.

figure 1, which illustrates basic image compositing,
served as the opening title to an environmental news
segment. I digitized the two dolphin photos using
DCTV (see figure 2) and loaded the clip-art image of
the Earth onto die jump screen. Then, with the paint
program's stencil features, I cut the dolphins as clips
(bottom images), resized them appropriately, and
stamped them into position on the jump screen. I
saved the result as a 24-bit IFF file.

Although 1 could have added the text directly in
DCTV. I instead created it — along with its near-black
drop shadow — on a solid-black background in another
program. Keeping the background and lexl pieces sep-
arate allows vou 10 change the text quickly i( you later
find (hat necessary.

I then loaded this new picture with the Earth and
dolphins into AD Pro. Making sure the Comp button
was on, 1 then composited the IFF and title files, sel-
ling RGB values to and Mix to 100. This permitted
the black background of the title screen to become to-
tally transparent, while the rest of the image was
mixed at 100 percent. (By setting the RGB and Mix
levels, you can make any specific color in an image
transparent while mixing the rest of the image to any
level of transparency.)

Finally, 1 scaled the entire image down one percent
before scaling it back up to the final 736x4X0. This al-

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C (I M POSITING

lowed me to create anti-aliasing around the text with-
out sacrificing image quality.

Masks and Shadows

Paint programs such as DcluxcPainl, I.ighl24, and
DCTV provide the ability to create stencils to protect
areas of your image from changes. You can then com-
posite other images into your collage over the unpro-
tected areas. You can achieve this same effect through
AD Pro by creating a two-color mask. The top-left im-
age in figure 3 demonstrates this: It shows the entire
deco-style design in black and white.

After deciding which pans will be the same color, you
can use your paint software's 1111 tool to create the sep-
arate mask liles. (The first of the mask llles for our ex-
ample appears in the lop-right corner of Figure 3.) You
then simply load the background (in ibis case the mar-
ble shown at the lower left) and then composite the
mask, making the black transparent. The result is
shown in she lower-right corner of the figure.

For this particular image, I used three types of mar-
ble lor different parts ol the design. Then 1 composited
these intermediate files together, with white being
transparent. The final image (see p. 35) was placed on
a black background for added contrast.

Some i>l your projects mav invoke 3-D graphics and
animations. The third example includes 3-D text ren-
dered in Imagine (Impulse). Looking at Figure 4, you
can sec most of the elements that were used to create
the final image. The lop half shows I he image before
processing, while the bottom half depicts the pmcessed
image. I created the blue background using I he ARexx
script for embossing that's included with AD I'ro on the
picture of wicker. I then composited ibis at a mix of 30
percent over a plain blue backdrop.

You achieve the embossed look by first loading a
negative of your image, and then loading the original
image one pixel to the right and one pixel down from
the negative, with only a 50-percent mix. (It works best
if your image is made of various gray levels and has
good contrast.) In this manner, you can use your paint
programs to create the same tvpe of look.

I created the red rectangles in a paint program and
added them next, lirsl with a 30-pcrccnl mix and each
of the RGB values at 2").") (lo produce white). Then I
shifted the image to the right and down, using the
helpful visual indicators in AD Pro's Composition Con-
trol screen, 'litis created die transparent drop shadow,
which adds depth to the image. I then added the same
file at a mix of 100 percent, finally, I rendered the
3-D text on a black background and added il in die
same manner, with a full 100-percent mix and black
designated as transparent (see Figure 5).

Those of you who work with 3-D software may won-
der why I would composite a rendered 3-D scene over
a background rather than use the latter image as a
backdrop in the 3-D program. There arc two reasons:
time and memory. The 3-D software must read die im-
age from disk and load it into RAM before rendering
takes place. This consumes significant amounts of both
commodities, as an overscan 24-bit background is
aboul 1MB in size. While some of the lime saved is lost
again during compositing, my experience shows that
there is an overall saving.

Furthermore, because the 3-D program may com-
promise the backdrop during rendering, composit-

ing ensures that the background will be of the very
highest quality.

The easiest way to composite fixed backgrounds into
an animation sequence is with an ARexx script. ADPro
comes with several ARexx scripts that give even novices
a good start, and you can use this approach with any
ARexx -controllable paint program or image processor
that lets you composite images together.

While I do not have space here for an ARexx lesson,
I can offer a lew pointers. First, create a list of the
names of your rendered frames. You can do this easily
from the CLI by changing the directory to the loca-
tion of your images and typing List>filename sort
quick. (You can use an editor to remove the extra en-
tries from the list and also to easily rearrange the or-
der of the images.) ►-

Figure 3. These parts went into the creation of the Image on this
article's opening page.

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!tl|{{llllll|!lll(ll(lll!llllt|illl!l(!!|lli!

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Figure 4. Different dimensions: The 2-D and 3-D elements that combine
to make the image in Figure 5.

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When writing the ARexx script, use the command
for your program that can load your background im-
age (wii li ADPro, use GetKle). Now create a loop to first
load the background file; then load the foreground pic-
ture, specifying mix levels and transparent color (AD-
Pro uses parameters after the load command); finally,
output the image. With ADPro, you could even save the
result to a Framebuffer (such as Impulse's FIRE-
CRACKER or GVP's IV24), and then trigger Microll-
lusions' Transport Controller to record your images au-
tomatically to videotape.

We Do Windows

The last example (sec Figure 6) involves a few more
steps, but should give you further ideas of what you can
easily achieve. All of the original scenic pictures were

Figure 5- 3-D graphics are exceedingly good news in the realm
of compositing.

Figure 6. A 30-percent white overlay gives this composite image
its gauzy feel.

high-resolution, severe-overscan, 24-bit clip-art images.
I created the red, white, and blue borders in Deluxe-
Paint at 772x5 1 6 and saved them as a single file. I then
loaded this border into AD Pro and, using the Center
button with a 100-percent mix, composited each scene
into the middle between the borders. I then scaled each
scenic image down to one-third of its size and temporar-
ily saved it to disk as an individual file. To form the
transparent drop shadows, 1 also created a plain-black
rectangle the same size as the reduced images.

To create the final image, I loaded the marble back-
ground and then added the first black rectangle, with
a 30-percent mix. Although I positioned the rectangle
by eye, I noted the exact starting positions because I
knew that the next step involved adding the first small
bordered image ten pixels up and to the left of the
shadow.

I handled the three other images in the same man-
ner, placing the shadow first and then the scenic. In
this way, I was able to have see-through shadows on the
marble as well as on the underlying scenics. This ap-
proach added depth to the finished picture.

The final touch in this example was to add cut-out
titles — instead of standard text — over the images. I cre-
ated a mask for the title in a draw program where I
could easily manipulate the characters. I saved the
mask — black characters on a white backgound — as a
simple two-color picture. Then I composited it at a :!()-
percent mix, with the black totally transparent: that
created the gauze effect.

Later, I added the outline around the letters using
a similar mask. This time, I used RGB values of 1 in-
stead of for the black element — the outline — so
that the composited result is not transparent. As in
the last example, I used the same scaling technique
for better antialiasing.

Regardless of what type of project you are working
on, remember to think about your final design before
you begin. Collect and arrange your elements carefully,
keeping the goal of effective communication in mind.
When considering source images, look for unusual
ideas — such as the use ofwicker for texture in the third
example — that can enhance your design. These cre-
ative touches can make a great difference.

finally, be sure to save intermediate files temporarily
as you progress. If you change your mind about one of
the elements you are including in a multilevel im-
age — such as that in the third example — the interme-
diate files will save a lot of re-creation time. Besides,
saving along the way lets von experiment with various
results. And with a little experimentation, the possibil-
ities are endless. ■

The Earth Matters image is a derivative composition, with
elements from original 1990 copyrighted works of Laurel
Canty and Pieter Folkens/Earthvie.ws, Except for the dol-
phins, all 24-bit images are from Texture City's professional
image libraries.

Steven Blaize is owner of Creative Fire, a multimedia pre-
sentations company, and co-owner of Texture City, dei'eloper
of 24-bit backgrounds and textures. He is an author, lecturer,
and consultant on Amiga and MS-DOS platforms, as well
as the Assistant Director of the Amiga Video-Craphics Guild.
Please contact him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St.,
Peterborough, NH 03458.

38 November 1992

law — whether you intend to sell your work, make it freely distributable,
or place it in the public domain.

ou've just downloaded a new program from
your favorite bulletin-board system and are
scanning through its documentation when you
tome across this paragraph:

This program is (c)1991 by Joe Cool. This program is
public domain and may be distributed only for noncom-
mercial purposes.

If you don't know why the above statement is flawed,
this article is for you. For now, let's just sav that Joe
Cool would be in for a surprise if he tried to sue for
copyright infringement.

Intellectual Property Rights

Most software developers feel a sense of attachment

to the software they create, especially if they depend
on that software for their livelihood. The computer
industry as it is today would not exist were it not for
intellectual property rights — a term that includes copy-
rights and patents.

A patent grants an exclusive monopoly for a limited
period of time (the length of protection depends on
the country) to the inventor of a new, nonobvious
product. In exchange for litis monopoly — which allows
the inventor to license the product to manufacturers ►■

BY ERIC GIGUERE

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and collect royalty payments — the in\emor discloses
the complete plans for the invention to the govern-
ment, which puts the plans on file. Once the patent
period expires, anyone can use or sell the invention
as lie sees fit.

Can software be patented? This question is being
hotly debated even as you read this. The US Patent
Office has already granted several patents on soft-
ware and program algorithms. Whether the patents
are enforceable will not be known until a few lawsuits
have wound their wav through the legal system. In any
case, obtaining a patent is a time-consuming and
expensive operation, so the vast majority of developers
depend on copyrights to protect their software.

A copyright grants the creator of an original work
of expression — a book, a painting, a sculpture — the
exclusive right to make (or to license the making of)
copies of that work and to prevent others from using
the work without permission. Unlike patents, copy-
rights do not protect ideas, only the expression of
ideas. Copyright protection also lasts longer, usually
the lifetime of the creator (author) plus a fixed
number of years.

Software can definitely be copyrighted, as can pro-
gram documentation. Most Western commies consider
software to be akin to literary work and deserving of
the same protection. For most developers, copyright is
the only viable wav to protect software.

Your Rights

Countries that are signatories to the Berne copyright
treaty — including Canada and, recently, the US — do
not even require that a copyright notice be present for
the work to be protected. Copyright exists the moment
a work is created. Not all countries, however, are mem-
bers of the Berne convention. For many years, the
United States was a signatory to the Universal Copy-
right Convention (UCC), but not to the Berne conven-
tion. For protection in non-Berne countries a copyright
notice like this is required:

The word copyright can be used in conjunction with
or instead of the copyright symbol, and for maximum
protection in certain countries the phrase "all rights
reserved" should appear immediately after the notice:

The copyright notice should be displayed promi-
nently within your source code and on the screen as
well, il possible.

Note that the letter c in parentheses — like this: (c) —
is not a valid substitute for the copyright symbol, so to
be safe, be sure to use the word "copyright" in your pro-
gram source code.

Although registering your copyright with the gov-
ernment is not necessary, doing so affords you maxi-
mum protection. In this way, you can sue lor statutory
damages as well as actual damages in a copyright
infringement case. Typically, this involves filling out
a form describing the title and nature of the software
and including two copies of the source code (or parts
thereof) with a registration lee (less than S2(l in most
cases).

Of course, copyright restrictions are useful only il

they are enforceable. While they certainly are. litiea-
tion for copyright infringement is expensive, and if
the violator has little or no money, about the best you
can hope for is to stop the infringement. Unless your
software is worth something substantial, there is little
you can do in a practical sense to prevent infringe-
ment.You must just have faith that your copyright will
be respected.

A copyright can be bought and sold much like ma-
terial property. The owner of a software copyright
is usually the person or persons who wrote the software,
unless it was done in the normal course of employ-
ment, in which case the employer owns the software.
The owner of the copyright is granted certain exclusive
rights:

1) the right to make copies of the software in any
form (this is the origin of the term copyright):

2) the right to sell, lend, give away, or otherwise
license the use of those copies: and

3) the right to prepare derivative works.

As you can see, copyright protection enables software
developers to peddle their wares to the public in the
hope of making a profit and with reasonable expec-
tation that their work will not be pirated. Kxcept for
backup copies, anyone who makes and distributes
copies Of copyrighted software without the permission
of the copyright owner is liable to be sued for copyright
infringement.

'Hie third right, that of preparing derivative works,
is an important right. "Derivative" in this sense means
works thai are based on one or more other works, as
in new versions of programs. Even if you make substan-
tial changes to a copyrighted program, the copyright
to the new program as a whole belongs to the original
copyright owner.

Public Domain

Copyright provides protection for a limited but
lengthy period of time, especially where software is
concerned. When a copyright expires, the work that
was protected is said to enter the public domain,
after which it is available for use by anyone for any
purpose. In other words, it belongs to the public.
Copyright protection can also be lost if the work is
improperly or fraudulently registered.

Software can also be placed in the public domain by
the copyright owner at any time before the copyright's
expiration date. This should not be a decision lightly
taken, however, because once copyrigbl proteclion is
withdrawn, it is lost forever. While derivative works
of public-domain materials can by copyrighted if the
changes are sufficiently substantial (such as an English
translation of Dante's Inferno drawn from the original
texts), no one can copyright original works that have
lapsed into the public domain.

It should be evident at this point that the phrase
"this software is public domain" must be used with the
utmost care in your software. Think it over carefully;
clo you really want to relinquish your rights to the
software? Remember that once your software is in the
public domain, anyone can do anything with it. This
includes selling il toothers without giving vou a single
penny, or including it in commercial software without »

40 November 1992

Real-time 24-bit graphics for your Amiga or Video Toaster!

Introducing Visiona, a fully programmable real-time 24/32-bit 16.7 million coior graphics card
for the Amiga 2000 and 3000 series computers (unlike the Harlequin and ImpactVision 24
cards, which are merely framebuffers.)

Visiona is based on the powerful Inmos G300 GaAS graphics processor which runs at speeds
up to 135 MHz and utilizes up to 4MB high-speed (20ns!) on-board memory. Visiona supports
programmable screen resolutions of 1024 x 1024 pixels in 16.7 million colors up to an
impressive 5792 x 5792 pixel monochrome resolution.

Workbench-Emulator (included) allows you to open the Workbench (or any screen that uses
the Intuition library) in resolutions up to 1280 x 1024! Visiona comes standard with many
powerful utilities and several 24-bit color games!

Optional Visiona TV-Paint software turns your Amiga into a professional quality 24-bit 16.7
million color paint box system. TV-Paint also works together with the Video Toaster! In fact,
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giving you credit. (The ethics of such activities are
debatable but beyond die scope of copyright law and
this article.) 1 here is nothing wrong with placing vour
software in the public domain, of course, bin you
should consider the option thoroughly.

Freeware and Beyond

Another option is to give your software away without
placing it in the public domain, ['here are a Dumber
of reasons for wanting to do this, such as making sure
no one makes radical changes lo your program without
your approval. Copyright enters the picture here, since
one of the rights attached to a copyright is the ability
to distribute the program as the copyright owner sees
lit. li is not unusual to see a statement immediately fol-
lowing a program's copyright notice that says some-
thing like this: "Permission is granted to freely dis-
tribute and modify this program for non-commercial
purposes only."

Copyrighted software with such a notice is usually re-
ferred to as freeware or freely-distributable software, be-
cause it can be freely shared with other users. (Techni-
cally, all public-domain software is also freeware, as there
are no copyright restrictions to prevent its being shared.
However, the term freeware is not synonymous with the
phrase public-domain software.) A program that can be
shared, and for which a payment is requested if you use
it after a trial period, is referred to as shareware.

If you are interested in making your software truly
freely distributable (thus allowing it to be of greatest
possible use to humanity), you may wish to examine
what is known as the GNU Public License. Some-
times called a "copyleft," the copyright statement is
used on all software developed by the free Software
foundation. A copy of the statement is included with
ever)' FSF software product and is available separate-
ly from the FSF (675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam-
bridge, MA 02 139). Be aware that the Public License
is somewhat controversial and thai you should exam-
ine its ramifications carefully before using it in your
software.

"lb implement the Public License, attach the follow-
ing notices to the start of each source file to most
effectively convey the exclusion of warranty. (At
the very leasl, each file should have the "copyright"
line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 1,
or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam-
bridge, MA 02139, USA.

In addition to these notices, you should include
information on how to contact you by both electronic
and pa pei' mail.

If she program is interactive, make it output a short
notice like the following when it starts in an interac-
tive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright © 19xx name of author.
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for
details, type "show w". This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type
"show c" for details.

The example commands "show w" and "show c" should
display the appropriate parts of the General Public

License. Of course, you may want to use Other com-
mands, or even mouse clicks or menu items.

To make the process complete, you should also get
your employer (if you work as a programmer) or vour
school (if you are a computer-science student) to sign
a copyright disclaimer for the program, if necessary.
Here is a sample;

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
program "Gnomovision" (a program to direct compilers to make
passes at assemblers) written by James Hacker.

<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

For More Information

There are many books available dealing with copy-
rights and other intellectual property issues. If you can-
not End any at your local library (don't forget to check
the section on book writing) a good bet is the nearest
college or university library. Be sure to check the pub-
lication dates on the books, as copyright law is always
evolving. Software Protection by G. Gervaise Davis III
(Van Nostrand Reinhold) is a good introductory book,
if somewhat dated. For those with a keen interest in the
subject area, The Law and Business of Computer Software
edited by D.C. Toedt (Clark Boardman) is also a good
choice. United States residents can obtain copyright-
registration information by writing to the Register of
Copyrights, Copyright Office, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.' 20559.

But remember: no book or article can substitute for
professional legal advice. When in doubt, consult an
intellectual property lawyer — your family lawyer is
unlikely to have the expertise you need.

Bv the way, the example "copyright statement" at
the beginning of this article illustrates what not to
do if you wish to keep the copyright on your software.
That statement might be titled nonsensical (because
of the use of the words "public domain"), and copyright
protection could be lost if an infringement case ever
came to court. ■

Eric Giguere is the author oj Amiga Programmer's Guide
to ARexx (Commodore/Amiga, 1991), and a member of the
Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo. Write
to him r/o the Computer Systems Group, ( University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Out., Canada N2L3G1,

42 November 1992

UBLISH

Producing a fresh, captivating

publication involves more than

pumping out prodigious amounts of

prose. We'll show you how to make the

right choices in terms of fonts, layout,

image manipulation, and more —

so you can get your point

across with style.

By Victor Osaka

Pan a che

ITS THE CONTENT that really matters, right? Who needs to design a newsletter?

In truth, both content and design are important, People are more apt to read your material if
to the eve. If ihev imisl strain to read the text, however, thev will neither enjov it nor be in a state
content. Imposing blocks of tiny or unreadable type may cause readers to skip over your text alto

Having seen scores of newsletters and produced one
myself, I know that the quality and appearance of your
newsletter depends less on your equipment or desktop-
publishing program than on your sense ol design aes-
thetics. Careful use of type and graphics make the real
difference between a good design and a great one. This
article oilers some design ideas and concepts to make
your newsletter more effective, and shows how your
Amiga software can help.

In describing some parts of the process, I'll refer to
the black-and-white monthly I publish, the 3D Art
Forum International (3DAFI) newsletter, which is pro-
duced entirely on the Amiga. It is 12 to II pages
(11x17 sheets folded in hall) and contains lots of high-
resolution IFF images in addition to text. (To locate ven-
dors of ike products mentioned, sec the "Mannfiictnrcrs'/Dc-
veh/wrs' Addresses" list on p. 10-i.)

Good Design

To begin thinking about design, 1 suggest that you start
a "good designs" (lie lor tear sheets and dippings from
the most effective, attention-grabbing newsletters you
see. You can refer to these for inspiration and education
in the liner points of good design.

Think you don'l know what good design is? Really,
at least on a subconscious level, you do — and you re-
spond to it. What you must do is educate your conscious
mind to implement what you already know. Ask your- 1

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self "What is it about these designs thai makes me like
them?" You will find that you can indeed recognize
good newsletter design.

Wln-n looking at the designs in your clip file, notice
where your eye gravitates to. Your eyes should move log-
ically over the page, first to the title of the newsletter,
then toward the headline of the main article, and finally
to other auxiliary information blocks. Also, pay attention
to die Mow of in format ion I'nini page to page. Does your
eye easily lind where the article continues?

Go ahead and model your newsletter after a success-
ful publication, but do not copy il directly, and do not
duplicate articles or images; they are copyrighted.

Your design sets I lie "personality" of your newsletter,
which depends in large part upon your audience. To
determine your graphic-design goals, first analyze your
audience. Is il technically or artistically oriented, young
or old, academic or otherwise? Review examples of
newsletters, promotional, and trade magazines in its
field of interest. Knowing what your readers encounter
in oilier publications will help guide you to what they
might expect from yours. In the end, though, it is you
who must be pleased with the results.

Before implementing a design on the computer, cre-
ate a "mockup" of it will) pencil and paper. The grid sys-
tem helps you to determine your margins, column width
and space between columns. Do a lew different grids and
let l hem sit for a day. Then look at them again with a
fresh eye tomorrow. The resulting template is important,
as it forms the basis of all your future issues.

Programs such as Professional Page 3.0 (Gold Disk)
and PageStream 2.2 {Soft-Logik) allow you to set your
final grid system and apply it to all pages of your
newsletter (except, probably, for the first page or cov-
er). When you are readv to import the text of your ar-
ticles, it will flow right into your pages automatically.

The Elements of Style

The ultimate goal of design is to facilitate effective com-
munication. To achieve that goal, you must grab the
reader's attention and hold it. The article titles should
immediately catch the eye, pull quotes emphasize im-
portant points, and graphic elements and images rein-
force the content, not overrun il. The proper choice of
type should earn' the reader through without fatigue.

And don't forge) air: A good design "breathes" visu-
ally. It will have a balance of white space, type columns,
headlines, and graphics. With careful use of white space,
you can emphasize your titles and pull quotes and focus
the reader's attention. You can manipulate balance by
justifying the body text or by ragging on either side. Your
choice will depend on the type of reader you arc catering
to. Print out a sample ol vour design using two or three
columns with a variety of column gaps between them.
You may be surprised at how different gaps can affect
the readability of your page.

As mentioned before, overly small type can drain
your reader, but the issue of type goes beyond just
choosing the right size. Different faces, line leading,
and kerning variations can make a tremendous differ-
ence in readability. When choosing a tvpe treatment,
consider the final output method: I.inotronic output at
1 1' 10 dots per inch (dpi) mav give some type faces over-
ly fine detail, and 300-dpi dot-matrix output can make
sonic type look too dark.

Depending on the appearance you want to create for

your newsletter, you might choose a serif font (Palatine,
for example) for the body text and a sans-serif Tout
(such as Univers) for the headlines. In any case, a good
design will minimize the variety of fonts used on a sin-
gle page. Different type styles help to organize and em-
phasize elements, but should not distract the reader.
Using style tags will speed up the process of designing
your newsletter by allowing quick and effortless global
changes lor experimentation.

lb help determine a readable lout treatment, you
will need an ASCII-format text file for "greeking."
(Some say that it is best to use nonsensical type, but I
just use the documentation from one of my programs.)
The file should be large enough to lill your entire
newsletter, and you should use 1 he same file for all your
design iterations, flow ibis type into a page and run
out samples using a variety of fonts ai the size of your
newsletter. Vary die leading, kerning, and type faces for
these tests and save them as a reference for future tvpe-
design decisions.

On the Amiga, both Professional Page and PageStream
use outline-font technology. This gives you the best qual-
ity L\ pe loi an\ pi inter. I iv imend pun basing a vari-
ety of fonts for your library. There are several hunched
Adobe Type 1 fonts, which you can find on many Mac
and PC BBSs. Both PageStream and Pro Page can easily
convert these to Amiga-compatible outline fonts.

PageStream allows you to scale, stretch, twist and ro-
tate outline fonts, abilities indispensable for creating
dynamic headline type. You can use its drawing tools
to create stylized filigree and then save it as an IFF im-
age for use in anv layout program. You can get a similar
effect with Gold Disk's Professional Draw and move
the results into either Professional Page or PageStream,
the latter ol which also allows von to manipulate your
Professional Draw clips.

Outline-font technology makes it easy to include
drop caps in your design. A drop cap is a very classy
treatment that involves enlarging the lirsl letter ol' an
article, making it anywhere from II to 20 points larger.
For variety, try a reverse letter within a black box, or
filigree surrounding the character.

More Than Words Can Say

Any images you include in your design should inii-
malelv relate to the article, and you should carefully
consider their placement and size. In general, images
should accent the article — not the other way around.

Both PageStream and Pro Page can import super-
bitmapped 24-bit images, but keep in mind that there is
a point beyond which a higher resolution won't buy you
any improvement in quality. Consider processing your
very hi-res superbitmaps down tea more reasonable size
using ASDG\ Art Department Professional (ADPro). I
find that images are an important aspect of 3DAFI.
'I'lte cover, for example, incorporates a large, 3-D gen-
erated IFF image.

Working with images in an Amiga desktop-publish-
ing program can be difficult (the problem is related to
hardware, not software.) Neither Professional fegc nor
PageStream gives you a great representation on the
screen, which makes it difficult to compose directly on
lhe monitor. I fine! it best to print out images oversized
beforehand, and then scale them down with a photo-
copier to determine a good size. I then scale the on-
screen image to match the photocopied piece, *■

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BME (Bit Map Editor) can help you make them per-
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PC, and Amiga formats.

I use both Professional Page and PageStream for
newsletter production. The latest versions offer many
powerful tools. Professional Page S.O's Genie function
is ideal for newsletter layout design and its links to AD-
PRO and Professional Draw 3.0 are fantastic. Pro Page
is a joy to use when dealing with large image files, he-
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the resulting file. PageStream, on the other hand,
writes your image(s) directly into the file, so your

The Newsletter Design Process

• Determine who your readers are and
what they would like from your publi-
cation. If you don't know, conduct a
survey.

• Create a design that communicates
with clarity, interest, and directness.
You might style your publication after
another successful one (without copy-
ing it, of course).

• Create a grid system that sets mar-
gin and column widths in which to
flow your text.

• After flowing the text files into

Design Checklist

• Do your eyes follow a logical pat-
tern: first to the masthead, headlines,
pull quotes and then subheads?

• Are the headlines and subheads in-
triguing and to the point?

• Do the type face, type size and lead-

Working Conditions

WITH THE RIGHT hardware. Work-
bench 2.0 allows for a larger working
screen, which both Professional Page
and PageStream can take advantage of
automatically. Digital Micronics' DMI
H = solver board upgrades your screen to
a high-resolution graphic display. And
personally, I am a firm believer in anti-
radiation screens. I find that I can work
much longer at the computer without
fatigue using NoRad Corporation's anti-
radiation screen, which I feel is the best.
Accelerators and extra memory do
wonders for desktop publishing. Don't
be mistaken; your life will change dra-
matically if you install an accelerator,
preferably a 68040. This is especially

your pages, create your headlines and
subheads, then create or input graph-
ic elements and IFF images. Can you
fit it all in without compromising the

design?

• Proof print the newsletter on a dot-
matrix or laser printer. Check for major
errors and omissions and evaluate
your layout. Does it work visually?

• Send your files to a service bureau
for Linotronic output or print them at
the highest resolution of your printer.
The results are your masters for me-
chanicals), ready for the print shop.

ing make the text easy to read?

• Is there a good balance of white
space, type columns, and graphics?

• Are the pull quotes and subheads
effective and clear?

true if you use PageStream or Profes-
sional Draw: Screen refreshes and file
imports speed up to more reasonable
rates.

Organization is paramount when
you are dealing with many files. A
good disk utility such as OPUS [INO-
VATronics) or DiskMaster {Progres-
sive Peripherals & Software] makes
managing them much easier. Be sure
to keep your original work files in
archive. Programs like Quarterback
[Central Coast Software) and Ami-
Back [Moonlighter Software] are es-
sential for irreplaceable files. I com-
press my files with the public-domain
program LZ before archiving them. !

graphics capabilities arc limited by the amount of RAM
you have. And because the resulting PageStream file
can be extremely large, storage can be a problem.
PagcStrcam's forte, however, is its superior irealment
of fonts and the ability to print superior halftone im-
ages on the ink-jet printer. The latest version offers its
own links to useful text- and image-editing programs.
One caveat in using Pro Page and PageSueam togedi-
er: The programs do nol talk to each other. You must
create mechanicals (pasteup or composite) using final
output from both — which I find easy to do.

Paper and Print

Paper selection is a very important decision if von want
your newsletter to be of the highest quality. The right
choice in paper can give you brighter type, crisper feel,
and belter-folded edges. Don't take these things lightly;
they can leave an indelible (although perhaps uncon-
scious), impression on the reader.

Look for a paper that is very smooth, light and crisp,
and dense enough so thai the printing on one side
does not show through to the other. Make sure that the
edges do not crack when folded in half. There are lit-
erally hundreds of paper choices. Ask your local paper
distributor or manufacturer for samples and availabil-
ity in your area.

The printing method you use will depend upon the
number of pieces you must distribute and the quality
you wish to achieve. If you need to print more than a
thousand pieces, consider paper or metal plates. Paper
plate is a relatively inexpensive process, although the
images it produces are generally not very crisp and
contrasiy. The more expensive metal-plate method
gives you beautiful image quality and clean, sharp type
(only as good as your originals, of course). Because of
the quality metal plates afford, in using them you
should go to Linotronic output of your masters.

Simple photocopying is not recommended unless
you require only a very small number of copies and im-
ages are nol an important element in your design. Al-
though laser copying is a bit more expensive, it is worth
it. I have found the quality to be superior — as good as
metal plates in most cases.

I create all the masters (mechanicals) for the 3DAFI
newsletter with ffewfcttAic'Aanfs DeskJet printer. Because
die newsletter's cover is so important, I send it to a service
bureau for Linotronic output at 1250 resolution and 120
line screen. All the originals then go to a print shop, where
die)' are output on a high-quality laser copier.

The issues involved in publication design and pro-
duction arc vast and cannot be adequately addressed
in one article. For more guidance, I recommend you
look into a number of sources. The Designer's Guide to
Text Type, bv Jean Callan King and Tony Esposito (Van
Nostrand/Reinhoid, 1990), is a time-saving compila-
tion of several dozen type Taces, styles, and leading
combinations. tVeio.sle Iters — From The Desktop by Roger
C. Parker (Venlana Press, 1990) is filled with excellent
information and examples, ■

Victor Osaka is editor and publisher of the 3D Art Forum In-
ternational newsletter, which serves the Amiga 3-D educational
Inundation that he founded, lie is also president of the oi-ga-
nizalion. overseeing support, information, and discount ojjers
to members. Write to him at 13-11 Orean Ave., Suite 349, San-
ta Monica, CA 90401-1066, or call 310/398-7649.

46 November 1992

Digging in to DOS

A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE AMIGA'S RELEASE 2 DISK OPERATING SYSTEM

This, our first installment,
investigates things you should

Release 2 incorpo-
rates by fur the
most significant set

of changes to Amiga-
DOS since the operating
system was released as ver-
sion 1 .0 in 1 98.5. While some
modifications may not be
readily apparent, they alter some
of the "rules" we have come to take
for granted.

One area that includes many such changes
is the boot procedure. In all 1.x Workbench versions.
Kickstan reads the user preferences from the DEV'S; sys-
tem-configuration file before it opens the initial CLI win-
dow. By the time it begins to execute the s: startup-
sequence script, Kickstan has ahead;' opened a Work-
bench screen thai conforms to such user-defined pref-
erences as screen type (interlaced or noninterlaced) and
font (Topaz 8 or 9). Editing the startup-sequence file
is a time-honored tradition in Workbench 1.x versions,
and there are not many ways to generate problems bv
adding commands to it.

In Release 2, however, the whole system of prefer-
ences has changed drastically. Settings are stored in in-
dividual files on the Workbench disk in the svs:Prefs/env-

know before you modify your
AmigaDOS startup-sequence.

archive/sys drawer,
which bears the logical-
device name ENVARC:.
The startup-sequence
script creates the env and
env/sys directories in the
RAM disk and assigns ENV:
to RAM:env. It then copies all
files and directories from EN-
VARC: to ENV:, including the pref-
erence files, which go to ENV:sys.
Later in the startup-sequence, the IPrefs
program executes. IPrefs not only reads die prefer-
ences files in ENV:sys and establishes the initial set-
tings, but also watches those files and alters the set-
tings when it detects changes. When you select the Use
option from one of the Preferences editors, a new ver-
sion of the preference file is written to ENV:sys. IPrefs
reads the new" file from there and changes the setting.
Because ENV: is assigned to the RAM disk, this change
lasts only until you reset or turn oil' your computer.
When you select die Save option, however, the file also
copies to the ENVARC: directory, making the change
permanent.

This new procedure works very well and has a num-
ber of benefits. It allows Commodore to easilvadcl new i

BY SHELDON LEEMON

ILLUSTRATED BY BARTI IN 5 IAHIF.lt

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DOS

preference items, such as sound or Postscript Prefer-
ences, without a ROM upgrade. This scheme also
serves ;ts :i model for third-party hardware and software
developers. By following ( lommodore's example, com-
panies can create their own preference editors with the
same look and feel as Commodore's, and use their own
programs to monitor the preferences files that these
programs create.

Because Kickstarl automatically copies the contents
of the env-archive directory to ENV:, you can even save
archival copies of environment variables to this direc-
tor)'. By thus creating permanent versions of these vari-
ables, you need not re-create them at each session with
the SETENV command,

Screening Room

As with the old Kickstart, IPrel's must set screen pref-
erences (such as mode, font, and overscan) before any
screens or windows open. If a Workbench screen opens
before the new preferences are established, Kickstart
must close that screen before IPrefs can open one thai
matches the preference settings. The problem is that
Workbench cannot close a screen containing windows
(such as tile Shell window) that it does not directly con-
trol. To avoid this situation, the new Kickstart does not
open any display until it is absolutely necessary to out-

Programs in
the WBStartup
drawer run
automatically
when you
boot — usually
in the order in
which you
added them.

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ToolType

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put text from a program or to display an error message
or requester. That is why the initial screen stays blank
so much longer under 2.0 than under 1.,'i.

If you examine the 2.0 startup-sequence file, you
will sec that output from commands coming before
IPrefs is either suppressed with a Quiet switch or redi-
rected to NIL:. If you put one of your own commands
at the beginning of the 2.0 startup-sequence and if
that command generates some lexl before ll'rcfs es-
tablishes the screen and font preferences, the Shell will
be forced to open a window on a default .screen. Then,
when IPrefs runs, it will be unable to close the old
Workbench screen containing the Shell window, and
will complain by issuing the Following mysterious mes-
sage in a requester:

Intuition is attempting to reset the Workbench screen.
Please close all windows except drawers.

If you get this message every time you boot your sys-
tem, you have probably added a command line some-
where in the startup-sequence before IPrel's. The simple
solution is to redirect the output of anv new command
line to NIL:, if the program is called MYCOMMAND,
for example, and it takes the command arguments "ar-
guments," change the command line from

MYCOMMAND arguments

MYCOMMAND >NIL: arguments

The only other time you may see this message is
when you change screen or font preferences after
Opening a program thai puis a window up on the
Workbench screen, such as VirttsX or the Shell. Intu-
ition cannot reconfigure the Workbench screen until all
"visitor" windows are closed.

Here, Not There

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sequence file.

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startup-sequence file requires some familiarity with
text editors and the AmigaDOS command interface.
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You should know, though, that programs in the
WBStartup drawer execute in the order in which they
appear in the directory. This generally corresponds
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rectory. You can see this order by calling the names
with the LIST command (LIST Sys:WBstartup) from
the CLI. (11IR is not of use here, because it alphabet-
izes the list.)

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will not run unless ARexx has been started, for exam-
ple — you can usually modify it by dragging all the liles
in the WBStartup drawer to the RAM disk, deleting
them from the WBStartup drawer, and then dragging
them back to WBStartup in the correct order. If this
does not work, you may have to add the command that
runs first to the s: user-startup script, which executes
before the WBStartup icons.

Another point to keep in mind is that the system
waits for each program to finish before it launches the
next one. If any program does not finish within a cou-
ple of seconds, Workbench pops up the requester:

Program 'NameofprogranV has not yet returned.

Should I wait some more?

You can instruct the system not to wait for a program
to finish by adding a ToolType line reading IJONOT-
WA1T to the program's icon. Just click once on the pro-
gram icon, select Information from the Tools menu,
click the New button under TooHypes, type DONOT-
WAIT hit the Return key, and click on Save.

Commodities programs such as Blanker and Click-
ToFronl (found in the 'Ibols drawer) make excellent
candidates for the WBStartup drawer, bin many of
these programs pop up a settings window when von
run them, even if the settings are saved just as you like
them. If you add the ToolType CXPOl'l ]>=\b to the
icon of a Commodities program, it will not open a set-
tings window when it runs.

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with lots ol rypcs of programs that you want to run au-
tomaticallv; ARexx. virus checkers, keyboard enhancers,
appointment calendars, a clock, and so on. Bv using the
WBStartup drawer, you can modify your boo) procedure
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some obscure error in an arcane script lile. ■

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52 November 1992

BY GENE HAMM

For animators who aren't professional artists,
rotoscoping is a neat trick for creating smooth, high-quality animations.

toscoping — the process of tracing over live
action, frame by frame, and turning it into
a moving drawing — is probably one of the
more controversial and least understood
techniques in animation. But while profes-
sional animators are divided over its mer-
its, computer animation buffs who are not
accomplished artists can get a lot of mileage out of
dm c\i ellenl le< hniquc.

The reason that rotoscoping is a dirty word to many
of the pros is that they view the technique as a crutch
for people who cannot draw the human body. Yet other
shrewd practitioners view it as a handy trick when they
need to quickly capture the essence of an action or
gesture. Let's leave the debate to the academy and
move on. Whatever its pros and cons, rotoscoping is
used by animators more than they care to admit — and
often to great effect.

Rotoscoping can result in very beautiful animation, as
in ilte old Betty Boop cartoons and 101 Dalmatians, or
in awkward, jerky movements, as in the movie Lord uf
Ike Rings. The trick to rotoscoping is lo know when lo
be interpretive with live action and when to be Ulna!. 'Hie
fundamental rule to keep in mind is this: If live action
is not altered in some significant way, it is not animation.
So, if the animation appears so real that it seems live,
save yourself a lot of work and just use live action.

Generally, literal rotoscoping is good for (pardon the
pun) "inanimate" objects, where the mechanical look
is a plus, while interpretive rotoscoping is best for
humans and animals, where smooth, fluid movement
is required. Often, the best rotoscoping Jesuits are
obtained when the animator — working inierpulivelv —
looks at the live action to estimate not where the out-
line of a figure is, but where the skeleton is. The skele-
ton is what is traced, with the animator then dressing

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ROTOSCOPIN (J

the skeleton in whatever flesh he or she chooses. Let's
lake a look at a few examples of how each method has
been used 10 produce some very effective — and not-so-
effective— results.

Lessons of Rotoscoping Past

Cab Calloway's exaggerated, mbbery dancing was well
suited to animation. In several of the Betty Boop car-
toons, animators used Calloway's timing, altitude, and
gestures as reference points to create lluid dancing char-
acters. One of the cartoons, "Minnie the Moodier," is a
good illustration of interpretive animation because the
rotoscoping employed in ii transformed Calloway — a tall,
thin man — into a roly-poly walrus. It was easier for a man
to act as if he were a walms — leaving the rest to an ani-
mator's imagination — than it was to find a real walrus
dancing on its hind legs and rotoscope him literally.

On the other hand, literal rotoscoping was put to
excellent use in Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians. Cruella
De Yifs car was a white cardboard model, outlined in
black so that the animators could see it clearly. Shot in
Erame-by-frame stop motion and copied directly onto
eels, the car looked just like a drawing — without any
help from the animator, Cruella was then animated by
hand, sitting behind the wheel of the car, and the eels
were painted and photographed with the background.
This is as literal as rotoscoping gets. (In recent years.
Disney has replaced cardboard models with computer-
generated ones. Amiga users can choose to digitize
models or build them with 3-D programs, depending
on the kind of software and hardware they use and the
complexity of the model.)

Finally, the film Lord of the Rings seives as a caution-
ary example of what not to do when rotoscoping. The
entire film was live action, and the individual frames
were blown up to 8x10 photographs. Some scenes were
copied directly onto eels, while others were traced by
hand. The film contains a lot of swordplay and fast
action — so fast that, at times, a sword arm becomes an
indistinct blur or disappears altogether.

Faced with tracing blurs and invisible arms, first-time
animators did the logical thing: They drew anatomi-
cally correct, perfectly foreshortened arms in the math-

ematically correct position of the arc of a sword swing.
Each individual drawing was an exquisite work of art.
The trouble, however, was thai when projected at film
speed, the animation lurched along as if it were some-
thing out of the movie Night of the Living Dead.

What went wrong? The animators neglected to re-
member the basics of "squash and stretch." You must
keep in mind thai the faster something moves, the
more it stretches out. .As an arm picks up speed, it looks
deformed. But don't perform cosmetic surgery on
it — draw it deformed! \Vhcn it goes even faster, an arm
turns into a streak, so draw a streak. Although the in-
dividual drawings may look strange, the animation will
be a lot smoother because it is the cumulative effect
that is important, not the individual frames.

Rotoscoping Basics

To rotoscope on the Amiga, you need a VCR (a cam-
corder is best), a digitizer, and an animation/paint pro-
gram. Personally, I find the best digitizer for my jobs
is A-Squared Distributions Live! because it captures
multiple frames from a VCR in real lime. Once the
images are grabbed, I use Electronic Arts' DeluxePaint
FV to process and phi}- them back. (See the list on p. 104
for vendors' addresses.)

Shoot your subject against a blank wall. The wall
should contrast with the subject: A light subject calls for
a dark wall, and a dark subject requires a light wall.
Forget about subtlety in acting for rotoscoping. Ham
it up and exaggerate movements. Tell your subject to
pretend to be a stage actor and to make broad sweep-
ing gestures. What appears ridiculously overdone in
live action will look completely natural and restrained
when turned into animation.

With the Amiga's ability to manipulate and reprocess
digitized shapes, you can turn a live actor into a "toon."
Professional animators who look down on rotoscoping
usually brag that they can always spot whether some-
thing was rotoscoped or drawn bv hand. One of ihe
giveaways is that ihe finished character is always
shaped in the proportions of a normal, realistic human
bod) - , just as in a monster movie you can tell that it's
onlv a etuv in a lizard suit.

Figure 1. Some sample frames from the finished animation sequence that was created through rotoscoping techniques.

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R (» T OSCOPING

Toons, by contrast, are half the height of regular
humans, as was graphically illustrated in the film Who
Framed Roger Rabbit?. Roger came up only to Eddie
Valiant's waist. Real humans are eight heads high;
toons are four heads high. Rotoscoping can turn nor-
mal human proportions into toon proportions, thereby
eliminating a vital clue to the source of your animation.

Rotoscoping in Action

For my sample rotoscoping demonstration (some of
which appears on the opening spread of this article),
I videotaped my subject acting as if he were a cute, shy,
Disney-like baby bunny. His hands clasped in front of
him, feet pigeon-toed, knees together, upper body
twisting left and right, and head tucked into his shoul-
ders made a nice repetitive cycle.

After viewing the tape, I found the section I liked
best and opened Live!. In the Capture menu, I set the
number of frames I wanted to grab, choosing a number
that was a bit higher than I actually needed just to play
it safe. I played the tape and pressed F9 to capture the
frames. After pressing F10 to replay that sequence to
make sure it was the section I wanted, I saved it and
returned to the Workbench. At the Live! window, I
double-clicked on the Playriff icon. From the only
menu present there, I selected 1st Frame and then Save
Frame, and then continued with Next Frame and Save
Frame until I had saved all the frames.

When I had finished saving them, 1 closed Live! and
opened DeluxePaint IV. I loaded all the Live! frames
at once via the Pirture menu. In the # of Frames box,
I set the total number of my captured Live! frames and
double-clicked on the first frame, which saved me from
having to load them individually. I then pressed 4 to
run the frames continuously so that I could see if there
were any that I needed to trim in order to ensure a
smoother cycle. (If I had wanted to lose a frame here,
I would have gone to the Anim menu and looked
under Frames for Delete.) To be on the safe side, I
saved the cycle as an ANIM.

After turning on the grid, I grabbed a brush from
the top of the head down to the waist and enlarged the
brush to the correct size by pressing the Plus key ( + )

four times. Next, I stamped the brush so that the waist
registered to the knees and then repeated that proce-
dure on ever)' frame. After playing this cycle to see iT
it animated smoothly, I saved it as an ANIM.

With the grid still on and starting back at the first
frame, I grabbed a brush of the head, enlarged it by
pressing the + key three times, and stamped it clown
so it appeared to sit correctly between the shoulders. I
repeated that procedure on every frame, and when the
sequence appeared to animate smoothly, I saved it as
an ANIM. The proportions were then correct for a
cute, baby-bunny-type character.

For the final phase, I started at the beginning frame
once again. After each frame, I added another and
then cleared the added frame so that I wound up with
every even frame clear. From the Anim menu, 1 turned
on the Control panel (Alt-A) and then the Light Table
(1). I moved to frame 2, the Clear frame. With the
Light Table on, I could see frame 1 and the figure it
contained as I was drawing on frame 2.

I looked at that body as if it were an x-ray and drew
only the stick figure inside it for frame 2. 1 drew a stick
figure for each body, until the succession of frames
became body, stick figure, body, slick figure, and so on.
I then deleted all the bodies, leaving only the stick
figures. When this evele passed my viewing test, 1 saved
it. Next, 1 drew the finished baby bunny in another
color over the stick figure, and stenciled out the stick
figure. After a little minor tweaking here and there, the
animation — several frames of which you can see in
Figure 1 — was done.

Through rotoscoping techniques, the digitized live
actor can be invaluable in determining timing in your
animation. You can do this as precisely and as religious-
ly as I did in my demo, or you can simply rotoscope
the extremes and then draw the in-betweens freehand.
Much can be learned from digitizing humans and ani-
mals and analyzing their movements. ■

Gene Hamm is a veteran animator mho works for Colossal
Pictures. His credits include work on The Gumby Show.
Write to him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St.,
Peterborough, NH 03458.

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Hand-Made Natural
Textures

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or as brush litis in painting. Texture
screens are standard IFF images of
surfaces such as marble, brick, wood,
and so on. Many 3-D renclerers come
with some textures included, and li-
braries of texture images are available
commercially. A scanner or video digi-
tizer can capture textures photographi-
cally. This column, however, will ex-
plore methods the computer artist can
use to create natural-looking texture
images from scratch with painting and
image-processing software. (To locale
vendors of the products mentioned, see the
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses"
list on p. 104.)

Random Harvests

There are many approaches an artist
might take in creating such textures. I
will focus on one fundamental tech-
nique with many variations. A lew of the
results of these experiments can be seen
in the accompanying illustration. The
foundation of each of these textures is a
screen of random gray pixels. In fact,
with the exception of the wood texture,
I developed each image from the same
random screen. That initial pattern of
dots was ptit through a variety of simple
image-processing sequences to produce
the different textures shown in the
swatches. Colorization of each texture
was the final stage.

I used a variety of software in these
experiments — DeluxePaint IV (Elec-
tronic Arts). Director 2 (Right Answers
Group). PlXmate {Progressive Periph-
erals). Art Department Professional
(ASDG), and Imagemaster (Black Belt
Systems) — but to follow the examples,
you do not need all these programs.
Any paint package and any image-
processing program should suffice.

There are at least two fundamental
ways to create die base screen of random
pixels. You can paint the pattern manu-
ally with something like DPaint's air-

brush tool, or you can create it through a
script-based graphics program such as
Director 2, using its Point command
while randomizing the Pen color.

In DPaim, work on a 640x400 screen
with a spread of 16 grays from black to
white. Make Range 1 the full spread of
these 16 grays. Use the airbrush with
the single-pixel or the three- or live-
pixel brush. Turn on Cycle mode (F7)
and cover the entire screen with spray.
All 16 grays will be randomly sprinkled
over the image. Save this image for
further processing.

A similar screen can be created by
using Director 2 in an unconventional
way. Use random numbers to change
the Pen color each time the Point
command places a dot on the screen.
Either use random x and y coordinates
For the Point, or set up a loop to draw
each pixel sequentially from left to
right on each line in succession until
the screen is filled. You can employ a
similar approach in Amiga Basic or
with ARexx linked to a paint program.

Once you have created the base
image, load it into your image-pro-
cessing software. PlXmate is a good,
basic image processor for non-24-bit
work. AD Pro offers a number of
operators and convolve matrices that
perform sophisticated image process-
ing, while Imagemaster provides
screens full of buttons to experiment
with in its Process panel. The latter
two programs work in a 24-bit color
environment and can render in any
Amiga resolution.

A Textures Six-Pack

Now for some results. The "sand"
texture in the illustration is the easiest
to create because it is simply a blurring
of the random-pixel screen. In PlX-
mate, use the AVE averaging button in
the Image Process panel. In AD Pro,
choose the Blur operator or try the
Gaussian matrix in the Convolve oper-
ator. I did all my experiments in gray
-.rale for clarity and then colored them
later by altering the palette. The sim-
ple blurring of the random dots gives
a photographic quality to the pattern

58 November 1992

By combining a few simple painting
and image-processing techniques, you can create realistic,
natural-looking textures in minutes.

that is quite convincing.

For the "basalt" texture, start with
the same screen, averaging as de-
scribed above. Next, perform a Laplace
operation with (he LAP button in PIX-
mate or the LaplacianEdge convolve
matrix in AD Pro. This breaks the
image into higher-contrast clusters of
pixels. Finally, average or blur this
image again and run it through the
Deep Press convolve matrix in .AD Pro.
If you are new to image processing,
don't be put off by the terminology
mentioned above; just press the but-
tons and evaluate the results.

For the "malachite" texture, use the
Gaussian convolve matrix in AD Pro
on the original hi-res base screen. If
you arc using PIXmate, the AVE but-
ton works well for this blurring. In
Imagcmastcr, try the Smear effect
found under Kilters in the Process
panel. Next, adjust the palette to two
sequences of green. The gray image
contains a straight sequence of values
from dark to light. Change the palette
manually so that colors through ti
form a dark-to-light sequence and
colors 7 through 15 form another.
This creates the concretion texture
you see in the illustration.

The "pile" effect, which looks to me
like synthetic carpet, starts as a ran-
dom 320x200 base screen. In PIX-
mate, reformat this to 640x400 and
average the image. This creates larger
clumps than those resulting from
using a hi-res base screen. Next, select
Pixmate's EDG button to perform an
edge detection. Finally, average the
image again.

For the "burlap" texture, use a
320x200 random base screen. Load
that into fmagemaster and select Make
Shine from the Special Effects screen of
the Process panel. Perform Make Shine
on the entire image. Reformat the
image to 640x400 and blur or average
it as described above to produce the
finished effect.

finally, the "wood" texture is a result

01 that unconventional use of Director

2 outlined earlier for creating a ran-
dom screen. In this case, though, put

constraints on the randomness. For
example, the statement ?2-l randomly
yields 0, -1, or + 1, which can then be
added to the previous Pen color before
drawing a new point. Each new pixel
drawn on a line will thus be the same
value as the last pixel drawn — one
shade darker or lighter. This produces
lines in which pixels randomly but
smoothly rise and fall in value. Each
line, however, is unrelated in value to
the lines above and below it, which
creates an illusion of real wood grain.
You should then blur or average the
screen at the final stage, just before
adjusting the palette.

You can produce any of these custom
textures in just a few minutes. Endless
variations are possible, thanks to the
insight of software designers who allow
Amiga artists to combine the tools of
art and science. ■

Joel Hagen's awl its include work in art,
astrononi\, science fiction, and software
development Write to him at 10512
Sawyer, Oahdaie, CA 95361. Please
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope
for a reply.

All of the textures
above were created by hand,
using simple combinations
of painting and image-
processing techniques
with OeluxePaint IV,
Director 2, PIXmate, Art
Department Pro, and
Imagemaster.

AmgaWorld 59

Formats Figured

Befuddled by the airay of videotape mid machine formats?
You're not alone. Here's a look at each type, with some tips
to help determine which is best for your purposes.

By Paulo de Andrade

VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS have be-
come steadilv better and more accessi-
ble even 1 year. A whole family of pro-
fessional VTRs is now available for a
fraction of thecosi ol their broadcast -
quality predecessors. Even some con-
sumer decks allow basic editing at
reasonable prices.

While equipment is readily available,
however, video is not the same for
everyone. Manufacturers, seeing huge
potential in the glowing videographv
market, have come out with many
video formats. This Competition ex-
tended from the famous consumer
Betamax versus VMS to the broadcast
world with Betacarn versus M-lf. Al-
though prices have dropped as a direct
result of this struggle for dominance,
we now have a confusing array of for-
mats from which to choose.

Is digital better than analog? Is
Super-VHS broadcast quality? Can you
single-frame record an animation on a
home VCR? These are questions I hear
all the time. To understand the differ-
ences between video formats, let's
break them down into categories.

Broadcast Quality

The term "broadcast quality" is often
misused. To be considered broadcast
quality, a VTR must meet specific sig-
nal standards. Such machines have the
high-frequency responses, excellent
signal-to-noise ratios, and high resolu-
tions necessary to produce super sharp.

stable video and accurate, pure colors.

Rut broadcast-quality machines also
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built. They must withstand abuse of all
sons: from frenzied editors shuttling
hack and forth 10 finish their pieces
minutes before airing, to continuous
24-hours-a-day, seven-day s-a-wcck
operation, and so on. Therefore,
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mechanisms and cases made from
metals that make them strong and
provide sufficient rigidity so that mov-
ing parts meet precise tolerances. To
meet the repair speeds necessary for
broadcast situations, the circuits of
broadcast-quality VTRs are on easily-
removable boards, and the cases are
easily disassembled.

Broadcast-quality \TRs incorporate
the latest production technologies: ihcv
are Ira me- a ecu rate, have many audio
c hannels, and are easily connected to
other pieces of equipment. Their com-
ponents are of the highest grade avail-
able, and each unit is individually
adjusted at the factory to meet strict
broadcast standards. For all these rea-
sons, broadcast-quality VTRs are the
most expensive, ranging from $ 15,000
10 over SI 00,000. This group of ma-
chines is divisible into two categories:
digital and analog.

Digital

I he main advantage of digital video
lies in the fact that every generation
(that is. every copy made) loses very
little qualify. It is, therefore, the perfect
formal for image compositing and
multigeneration post production.
There are currently three digital
video formats:

Dl: Introduced in 1986, this "king"
of all formats is component digital,
designed for use in a completely digital
environment. Being component, it
separates the most important video
signals to keep the image quality at its
best. It does not use the composite
video signal, which, by mixing all video
signals into one, has some imperfec-
tions. A 1)1 machine has four digital-
audio tracks and separate longitudinal
tracks for SMITE lime code, control
track, and cue audio, and it contains 12
video heads. It uses metal-particle
videotape encased in small, medium,
and large cassettes.

D2: Although diis format uses
composite video, as with all broadcast
formats, the quality is so high that
composite does not make a big differ-
ence. Introduced in 1988, D2 is not
totally digital. The inputs and out-
puts ol a 1)2 machine are analog, and
it digitizes video and audio signals in
real time. This makes it easy to inte-
grate D2 machines into existing ana-
log video systems. A D2 machine
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videocassellcs similar to those of 1)1,
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mulation. +■

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Betacam; Introduced in 1982 as the
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functions, using '/s-inch oxide tape and
six video heads.

Betacam SP: Introduced in 1987 as
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component-video format uses thin
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M: Introduced in 1982, this format is
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It uses small and large cassettes and
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Professional Quality

While professional formats produce
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titan do broadcast VTRs. Some low-end
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Three-quarter-inch U-Matic: Intro-
duced in 1972. this became the first
practical format for news gathering;
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VHS: Introduced in 1975, VMS is the
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V r l'Rs, the quality is the poorest of all
professional machines, and they should
be used only for duplication purposes
or low-quality work. Machines
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lent sound. Cassettes can lie large or
small (VI IS-C).

S-VHS: S(uper)-VHS was introduced
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Hi-8: The smallest video formal, Hi-
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Because of their small size, Hi-8 re-
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footage when large machines would get
in the way. Gulf-war news people used
Hi-8 machines because they passed as
tourist home cameras. Although the
strength of this format lies in acquisi-
tion, there are now Hi-8 editing systems
and frame-accurate VTRs. The 8mm
metal tape is housed inside very small
cassettes tfiat lit inside a shin pocket.

The Format Formula

Willi so many formats to choose from,
how do you know which is right for
you? Mainly, your budget will lell von,
although there are oilier things to
consider. If you want to record 24-bit
animations to tape, a frame-accurate
VTR is a must. If most of your work
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trial/corporate productions, you should
definitely stick with professional VTRs.
The lower cost will keep you profitable,
and you can also use them for local
television commercials if von do not go
down too many generaiions. On the
other band, if you want lo produce for
network television, do high-end 24-bit
animations, or generate MTV-quality
music videos and commercials for big
companies, yon must go with full
broadcast quality.

Mosl important, make sure you know
what you are doing. If you do not have
professional video experience, take-
some courses before you try to make a
business of it. Having even the best
equipment is fruitless if you cannot
make good use of it. ■

Paulo de Andrade is president of a broad-
cast-quality production company that uses
Amiga.s. An right-year network-television

veteran, he has six years of experience with
computer animation. Write to him at Kme-
ma Graphics, 13800 SE 79th Dr., Kenton.
WA 98059.

62 November 1992

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er on the Amiga. On the other hand,
Kindwords 3 is simply a scaled-down ver-
sion of Uigita's Wordswort h word proces-
sor. Despite the claim that it is "the most
powerful word processor for jour Ami-
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upgrade offer in its box.

On its own, Kindwords is a fairly com-
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a unique left-hand toolbox that handles
most of the tasks (such as font control
and paragraph formatting) usually rele-
gated to a ruler atop the screen. A help
icon also produces an on-line guide to
the program's features.

Two major format requesters, Para-
graph and Page Layout, control the ap-
pearance or the final document. The
Paragraph requester lets you select line
spacing. You may specify line height as
six or eight lines per inch, automatic (ad-
justs to the selected font), single, double,
or custom spacing specified in points.
You can also tell Kindwords to skip an ex-
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and you can mix styles throughout the
document. The Page Layout requester
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Headers and footers are shown on
screen, and they may be different on op-
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symbols may also be visible. Have you
ever wanted a vertical ruler to comple-
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Kindwords accommodates, letting you
measure how much paper you have con-
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precise enough for accurate positioning
work, as there is no zoom control.

As you might expect, Kindwords oilers
the ability to insert numerous things in
a file, stub as page breaks, the date, and
the lime. Depending on your preference,
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never changes it (useful for reference
documents) or updates the date even'
time you load the document (useful for
form letters).

Kindwords also includes the requisite
spelling checker and thesaurus, and you
can easily add your own words to the
user dictionary via a convenient module
right in the program.

Strong Suits

Two areas in which Kindwords has a dis-
tinct advantage over excellence! are
graphics and printing. Kindwords allows
you to place graphics anywhere in a file
and contour text around them via a sim-
ple requester. This is in stark contrast to
excellence!, which treats pictures as al-
phanumeric characters, severely limiting
their placement in a document.

In addition, Kindwords was designed
to optimize output for dot-matrix and
other low-resolution printers. Kindwords
can produce high-quality output using
standard Amiga fonts if you have clouble-
or quad-sized fonts available. For exam-
ple, suppose you are printing a file with
15-point fonts. If there is a 30- or 60-
point version of the same typeface in the
louts drawer, Kindwords scales down the
larger font and prints with it instead, get-
ting a better result than is possible with
the size actually selected.

Kindwords has its share of idiosyncra-
sies, as well. With over three megabytes
of memory available, I was unable to
open more than two documents simul-
taneously, even though I couldn't find
anything in the manual about the max-
imum number of files I could open at
once. Also, as far as aesthetics go, I
found the Kindwords ruler and toolbox
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high resolution.

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(In England, the public-domain and "li-
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the "if X and Y, then /." variety.

It's easy to understand why this prod-
uct, upon its initial release in England,
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R E V 1 E W 8

From p. 72.

was called 3D Construction Kit. That's

exactly what it is, and the studio analog)'

Your imagination can blast off in three
dimensions with Virtual Reality Studio.

works as well: Yon can jam with Virtual
Reality Studio without a fixed idea in
mind, then take off on a theme when vou
hit the right note, whereas a language
such as Aegis Visionary requites advance
planning. It's the first real game kit
since Electronic Arts' ancient Adventure
Construction Kit. (Another, Interplay's
Bard's Tale Construction Kit, mav be
available by the time you read this.)

Stray Parts

Most of my complaints, such as they are,
are little picky ones. The file requester is
awkward; on mv Amiga 500 (but not on
the A3000), the program always accesses
dfO: the first time it loads data from disk,
rather than detecting (or asking me For)
the device in which it resides. FCL could
use a set of macros. The hard-disk instal-
lation program looks for a missing .info
file to create the program drawer, and
you'll have to make it yourself. (Then
again, just when you think the age of cre-
ative Amiga icons has passed. VRS throws
up a cute one.) The program does not
seem to multitask, but also doesn't take
over the Amiga, and on a three-megabyte
machine, I was able to keep other pro-
grams comfortably in memory with no
evident effect on YRS's performance.

While very speedy and smooth on a
25-MHz A3000, movement within VRS
games is a bit slow and jerky on 68000-
based machines compared to more re-
cent games in this genre, such as U.S.
Gold's Cybercon III. The program's
repertoire of shapes is understandably
limited to those consisting of straight
lines. (For instance, it can create a hex,
but not a globe, cone, or cylinder.)

The docs are a bit two-dimensional.
The 78-page manual is very solid when it
comes to explaining the commands, and
has a nice tutorial on creation of the ex-
cellent sample game, but it is rather lean

on tricks and shortcuts. The introductory
video included with the package may help
you get started, but it's more like an in-
Store info-inercial than a real user aid.
(Note to Dotnark: Vou could really use a
Virtual Reality Studio Handbook here.)

Also, I do think that a program so
clearly designed as a construction kit
could behave a bit more like one. The
manual cover and the video are lull of
stuff that appears nowhere in the pro-
gram. How about a data disk of pre-fab
objects and generic scenes to edit or cut
and paste with your own? VRS comes
equipped with only the 15 or so scenes
from the sample game, and the object li-
brary consists of a helicopter, space shut-
tle, and a palm tree. That might be OK
if you were building an adventure about
a pilot on vacation, but it's rather thin for
the novice feeling his way around. Oth-
erwise, this 3-D game maker is 1 A by me.
— Peter Olafson

Expert 4D Jr.

Genlsoft, S75.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 1MB RAM.
Recommend system: 3MB RAM,
hard drive.

Beginner 3-D modeling and animation.

\ streamlined version of Expert 4D
(currently available in Europe), Ex-
pert ID Jr. (E4DJr) is designed for be-
ginning users of 3-D modeling and ani-
mation software.

E4DJr is made up of three modules.
The Modeler is the main section of the
program, wherein you create all the 3-D
objects, assign them attributes, and build
animations. The Renderer draws the im-
ages and animations, and the Playback
lets you view your completed animation.

To begin work, vou enter the Modeler,
which provides a view of 3-D space from
the camera, or observation, point. If you
prefer, you can change the view to look
at the front, top, or side of your scene.
The Rotation and Zoom commands fur-
ther alter the view. With these, you resize
or rotate a bounding box in the scene to
establish a new viewpoint. The orienta-
tion of the scene can also be specifically
defined by entering coordinates in a di-
alog box. All the methods are very inni-
itive and simple to use, making it easy to
create and edit scenes.

You have a choice of object-creation
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erate primitive shapes (spheres, cubes,
cylinders, and so on) by specifying the
number ofpoints in the object and then

While simple to use, Expert 4D Jr. lets
you create complex objects.

editing them. Alternatively, vou can use
the Extrusion and Spinning functions on
a separate screen consisting of a grid of
dots. .After placing and adjusting points
on the grid in the shape of your object,
you extrude or spin the shape. If you ex-
trude, the program adds a user-specified
depth or thickness to the Hal outline. If
you choose the Spin option, E4DJr spins
the outline around a vertical point you
define. Spin is helpful in designing sym-
metrical shapes, such as vases. You can
even create cutaway objects by spinning
your shape less ihan 360 degrees.

Back to the Modeling Board

Objects appeal' on the modeler screen in
wireframe mode. When you click on an
object, it becomes surrounded by a box
with eight handles, three of which alter
the object's size and five of which control
the object's rotation along the three axis
dimensions. Clicking and dragging these
handles allows for visual scaling and
rotation of the object on the modeler
screen. For more exact adjustment, you
can also control the size and rotation
through separate panels. The one prob-
lem with using the handles is that they
look exactly alike, so it is difficult to re-
member which handle does what when
you are learning the program.

You can edit objects in other ways, as
well. For low-level changes, you can alter
them on a line-by-line or point-by-poini
basis. The Magnet tool attracts points in
the object to the spot where you place the
magnet, while the Mirror function lets
you create an exact opposite of your se-
lected object, lb build a complex struc-
ture, vou can join objects together, and
then assign a color and texture (the latter
controls how much light the object re-
flects). If you change your mind, the
Undo function cancels the last edit. When
Continued on p. 80.

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From p. 76.

the objects are finished, you can save

them in either E4Djr or Sculpt format.

Each scene may have up to ten lights,
all with user-definable color, intensity,
and aperture size. The light object on
the modeler screen looks like a stage
light, and the direction and size ofthc il-
luminated area is defined by a series of
lines emanating from the light. This is a
great feature, making it very easy to po-
sition your lighting.

To put your scenes in motion, E4DJr
uses the key-frame method of animation.
You place the objects in their initial po-
sitions for the animation, and then select
Animate Scene to indicate the first key
frame. To make other key frames, simply
change the scene and save it. The pro-
gram interprets the movement between
the frames, giving a smooth animation
when rendered. You can save as many key
frames as you need, and E4DJr makes it
easy to add, delete, and modify' them.

Once satisfied, choose the Renderer
module to generate the Finished product.
The software supports all standard Ami-
ga resolutions, with image size ranging
from postage stamp to full overscan. You
can render in wireframe, polygon, or, for
best quality, pixel mode, and even add
background and foreground pictures.
E4DJr does not ray trace, so it generates
images at a reasonable speed even on un-
accelerated machines.

Because E4DJr does not render 24-bit
graphics, DCTV support would be a wel-
come addition (as would the ability to pre-
view animations in the modeler). When
your animation is complete, you can view
it with the provided player program or
any program that plays animations.

Explain It Again

The only weak spot in E4D]r is the man-
ual. It does a barely adequate job of cov-
ering the program, is not well organized,
and is written in a confusing and some-
times irritating style. Moreover, the doc-
umentation contains very little infor-
mation on the basic concepts of 3-D
modeling and animation that are vital
for the beginners whom E4DJr targets.
Otherwise, E4DJr is a great introduc-
tion to the world of 3-D animation. The
program is reasonably fast on unacceler-
ated systems and is veiy stable. E4D|r is
also easy to use and does not confuse the
novice with a multitude of advanced fea-
tures. In addition, it has features — such as
the abilities to see the scope ofyour light-
ing and to save the object in a common
format — that are not available in many
higher-end 3-D programs. Even better,
the price of the program is much lower
than that of its nearest counterpart. If you

are interested in learning about 3-D ani-
mation, take a look at Expert 4D Jr.

— Dave Thomas

BoomBox

Dr. T's Music Software, $59.

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Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 51 2K RAM,
Recommended system: 1MB RAM,

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and entertainment.

It's one of those long, hot summer
nights, and you've got the urge to kick
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it will put some strut in your stride. Billed
as providing "interactive fun with music,"
it fulfills the promise exactly and ad-
mirably. BoomBox's metaphor is the tape
deck and mixer. With one of three control
screens, you can plav back four virtual
tracks of music using only the Amiga's in-
ternal sounds, controlling volume and
adding sound effects. You can then
record the result as a virtual mixdown.

The opening screen is an animated
portable cassette player, complete with
moving cassette tape, LED meters, and
speakers. T) make them pulsate, load one

BoomBox's Remix screen lets you be the
DJ at the mixing console.

of the supplied mixdown files, a set of
four pattern tracks for drums, bass, synch,
and solo, with six IEF samples for effects.
A volume slider controls the playback lev-
el of each track, and transport controls
start, stop, pause, fast-forward, and
rewind the mix. If you like the results, you
can record and save the playback mix.

The Remix screen has all the features
of the first and adds a few additional
control possibilities to the mix. Its
metaphor is a DJ's mixing console, giv-

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ing you control over playback tempo and
effects samples. Solo pads let you load,
control, and trigger individual effects
and, of course, record ihe resulting mix.
From the Remix screen, you can also
monitor which of the four patterns per
track are playing, trigger the current
measure again, or set it to loop.

The final screen, fain, has all the pos-
sibilities of Remix and adds the ability to
interactive!)' change the patterns that play
in each track. This is the deepest control
the program offers. You cannot record
new patterns or alter the supplied ones,
although there are a lot of permutations
available. The on-line help clearly ex-
plains every button, fade)', and option (it
should be a model to oilier developers).

There are a surprising number of mu-
sical variations you can make with Boom-
Box; it's a natural tool for making quick
soundtracks and spotting in custom
sound effects. For musical entertainment,
it's. ..well, entertaining. I wonder, though,
how long the limited range of Boom Box's
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The fact that you cannot create new pat-
terns or vary the style is a severe limita-
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stead of merely an enjoyable toy.

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Personal VDA

Digital Processing Systems, S150.
A2000, A3 000.
Internal; IBM or Amiga slot

connection.
Installation: Easy.

Distributes a single video signal to
multiple devices.

Breadboard

Cardinal Video, S398.

A2000, A3000.

Internal; PC-slot and Video-Toaster

connection.
Installation; Difficult.
Compatibility notes; Requires

NewTek's Video Toaster.

Delays video for downstream

switcher/keyer and limited video

distribution requirements.

Even if you're not a video professional,
you've seen the problem. You split
your incoming cable so it reaches several
TV sets in your home, but the resulting
picture quality is not very good. A video

signal is more like water than electricity:
Split it several times, and, as with water in
a pipe, you'll get that much less through
each pipe. In video terms, that means the
signal strength diminishes enough to se-
riously affect the overall picture quality.

A distribution amp (DA) solves this
problem. It splits the video signal several
times, but boosts the signal strength so
that each is as good as the original. This
is uselul when you want to simultaneously
record an image to video tape and view it
on another monitor; make multiple
copies of a tape using several recorders;
send a genlock reference signal to several
devices; or simply add more program out-
puts to the Video Toaster. As you'll see, the
two internal DAs available for the Amiga
have quite different uses.

Personal VDA: Video Booster

The Personal VDA (video distribution
amplifier) comes in two models. The
VDA- 1 000 fits into an IBM slot so you
can use it in a PC or an Amiga, while the
VDA-1050 plugs into an Amiga slot. Both
versions provide four 75-ohm terminated
outputs from a single PAL or NTSC
source. The input is ac-cotipled and fed
to two separate video amplifiers, both of
which provide two video-out BNC con-
nectors for a total of four outputs. With
the rear control, you can adjust each bank
of two for again range of + 2dB. The ter-
mination switch is also on the rear of the
board, so you don't have to open your
computer for simple adjustments.

If you already have a heavy power-sup-
plv load from other internal cards and
can't get enough -12 volts dc, the board
adds a positive dc offset that cuts the -f 2
load by half, although it increases the + 12
load by 40 mA. You would turn this off
only if other equipment is affected by it,
and it should help reduce power-supply
problems. You can also switch to -5 volts
dc. What this all comes down to is that the
Personal VDA has a much better chance
of operating in your machine when you
have a lot of other cards installed.

The downsides to having a VDA inside
your computer are that it occupies a
valuable slot and that you have to reach
behind the computer to plug and un-
plug cables. The big pluses are low cost
and compactness for small studios.

Breadboard: Toaster Delay

If you have a Video Toaster, you may want
to take a look at the Breadboard. While
it is not designed to be a general-purpose
DA, it does have some DA capabilities. Its
primary function is as a delay line, and it
takes strong advantage of the fact that it
is plugged inside the Amiga and cabled
to the Video Toaster's JP2 connector.

It gets its video signals direcdy from
the Video Toaster, passing Toaster input
signals through to its own output. BNC
D is always Program output, and BNC E
can be either Program output or Preview.
The maximum number of outputs from
a single signal is three (Toaster Preview,
and BNCs D and E set to Preview), so you
could distribute a signal to three devices.

The oUicr three channels have a some-
what different use. The Toaster takes time
to do what it does, introducing a 440-
nanosecond delay- If you have a switcher
or other device connected to the Toaster
output (ill video terminology, it is "down-
stream" of the Toaster) and you want to
mix it with other incoming video, the sig-
nals will be out of sync with each other.

The traditional solution is to add de-
lay lines that delay the other video sig-
nals so they arrive at the same time as
those from the Toaster. This is the pur-
pose of the other three outputs, which
take the video from the Toaster inputs,
amplify them, and allow you to add a de-
lay, adjustable from 25 to 525 nanosec-
onds. You can then connect them to your
downstream switcher and everything will
work together (assuming that all of your
cables are the same length, as even the
trip down a cable can add some delay).

The unit comes preset for input 4, key
insert, and alpha channel as the three
outputs. The alpha channel provides
matting capability for high-quality key-
ing with an external switcher/keyer; sim-
ply connect the second provided cable to
the Toaster's JP1 connector. Besides pre-
serving the quality of die background
video in keys, this opens up the options
of interesting mix effects with three pic-
tures on the screen at once, multiple
keys, and multiple dissolves and wipes.

Preset is an appropriate term in several
ways: You must configure the board the
way you want it before installation, and it
is not adjustable once installed. All of the
settings, including unity gain, are directly
controlled on the board via small poten-
tiometers that require a tiny screwdriver or
tweeker. You must power down and open
up your computer to change anything.

Wanted: More Explanations

My only complaint is one that 1 have with
most Amiga video peripherals: very poor
documentation, While the Personal VDA
manual is sparse, at least it provides the
minimum of information you need to
gel started. The Breadboard, how ever, is
a more complicated device, and its few
photocopied pages of documentation
are worse. They It'll you thai you can se-
lect which Toaster inputs you want to de-
la)', but not how to do it. If you want to
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Entry-level structured drawing.

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you are drawing them. This is the same
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ExpertDraw departs from the norm,
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bitmap references to trace. It converts
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connect nor close polygons: They simply

For an Introduction to structured draw-
ing, consider ExpertDraw.

superimpose the end points (although
they do that very well, and that can be suf-
ficient for most purposes). Scaling objects
by dragging with lite Size tool worked well
enough, but I had trouble scaling with the
Size Coordinates requester, In addition,
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beveled, rounded, and so on) at present.
Genisoft savs that this omission will be ad-
dressed in the next release.

ExpertDraw also promises flexibility
now and for the future. Currently, it can
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saves them much more quickly than
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PageStream fonts with ExpertDraw.

Overall, ExpertDraw has a veiy solid
feel and performs operations very quick-
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With I hat boost, it could be an excellent
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Aimimatrix Modeler

duBois Animation, S99.95.
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Minimum system: 1.5MB RAM.
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rendering program.

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Escape key. This may seem convenient;
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specific selections.

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kev from the z through the comma rep-
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right. This means that you must still
work your way down and back through
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the keys you are accustomed to using will
change function. You can change your
viewpoint (camera view) at any time us-
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cursors without changing functions.

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function available only in better pro-
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enced slight trouble with redraws only af-
ter pressing die cursor several times. The
menu buttons are designed to provide a
2.0 look and fee!, but the program
locked up my machine repeatedly while
limning under AmigaDOS 2.04. The de-
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Accelerators

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GENTTIZER

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Handscanner

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9 x6 $189

12"x12"S310. 16"x12"S489

$144

External SCSI Hard Drive Storage

Beetle Mice

T-shirts

Med. Lrg, X-Lra

Cap $8

AMIGA A2286

IBM Bridseboard
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Only $249

.Complete IBM emulation lor
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All units Include] Pawn supply. SCSI external eat>k.
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Productivity Software

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Books

Hardware

Art & Animation

Art Department Pro 2.1 |l&4

ImaQOmasler $135

Deluxe Pa-nt IV V4.1 $122

Disney Anim. Studio £79

Draw <*D Pro $199

Imagine 2.0 5259

Pixel 3-D 2.2 Call

Pro Textures S47

Prof, Draw 3.0 St25
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Vi5iaPro2.0 £59

Databases

Microfiche Filer $62

SuperBase Personal 2 $34

SuberBa&e IV 1-2 $1BS

Music

Sars and Pipes $99

Bars and Pipes Pro $219

Delx Music Const. Set $69

Super Jam 589

F/uiiimedia Kit $3S

Music Box A $33

Muse Box B $38

Tele-Communications

A-Talk III $37

Baud Bandit 2 530

SupraFa* Sc-hwate S79

Spreadsheets

Advantage $125

Miiai Plan 4.0 $99

Professional Cat $189

Utilities

Amiback 2.0 $5Q

Arexx $31

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Directory Opus $37

Di5KWastei II $44

Labelctex $47

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Video & Presentation

AmigaVisien
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Word Processors &

Desk Top Publishing

Final Copy II Call

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History of |he Amiga

Haw lo Animate

Irragine: A Guided Tour

Minds Eye

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S49

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S56
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$59

Pnantom SMPTE MIDI

S5J9

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Miracle Keyboard

S349

Audio

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552

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5199

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5359

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5649

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589

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SJ49

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S75

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S329

AT ONCE Plus

5279

Po™ PC Board

S?A9

Joysticks, Mouses &
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Slik Stik Joystick $7

Boss Joystick SI5

Tac 50 Joystick S17

Bat Handle Joystick 525

Jin Mouse 525

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G:.: c^: Mouse
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The Ultimate Speakers T

for Amiga!

Satellite Spc.tkriis

Romot©

Compact Subwoofer

Computer speakers have always been a compromise- Ettner you had tiny, self-amplified
slandalones that didn't have the volume or bass response that you really wanted, or you had to
connect your Amiga to a stereo amplifier system with big rjookshell or floor speakers. Using the
amplifier and big speaker approach gave you pretty good sound, but had its own problems: no!
only did the speakers lake up a lot of space, but the farther away Irom your computer you put
them, the more separated the sound source was Irom the picture. It was sort ol like watching TV
and having voices come Irom the other side of the room. Now. TENEX brings you the first
computer speaker system without compromises: The Altec Lansing ACS300 Multimedia
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interference with your monitor's display. What really makes Ihe ACS3000 different, though, is the
compact subwoofer that can be hidden anywhere. The subwoofer adds the booming bass that
makes Ihe speaker system sound like one five times its size, and. because your ears can't
localize where Ihe bass is coming Ircm, you can hide Ihe subwoofer out of sight! When you
connect your Amiga to the ACS300, you'll find out why we think it really is the ultimate speaker
system for computers!

ACS300 Computer Speaker System C11743 299.00

Amiga Adapter Ct2055 7.99

C E Commodore

AMIGA

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AMIGA 500 COMPUTER,

Includes A500 computer with built-in keyboard and floppy disk drive, power supply, mouse.

documentation, and Workbench software.

Amiga 500 C10527 299.95

Special Upgrade Bundles!! (include* Lemmings faun

W1K.A SOI) BONUS PACK.

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Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings C 1 0204 339.95

AMIGA SOU POWER PACK.

Includes all A500 Bonus Pack items PLUS 512K memory expansion w/clock and calendar,
WICO joystick and lyping tutor, games, and productivity software.
Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings K10575 399.95

AMIGA 500 SUPER GRAPHICS I'ACK.
Includes all A500 Power Pack items PLUS 1 0B4S Stereo monitor.
Amiga 500 Suoer Graphics Pack w/ Lemmings K10586 669.00

AMIGA SYSTEM UPGRADES

cvp \saa imi'u 1 si in 1 s n 11 \kd drives

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Internal Backus 94572

629 DC

SYQUEST DRIVES FOR AMIGA * MAC

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88MByte Internal Dnve A67257

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98565 21-95

98597 24.95

99600 1295

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96624 2995

AMIGA INPUT DEVICES

BEETLE MOtlSfW/P AD 94074 3455

BOINGt MOUSE W7PAD 94083 99.95

FLEXIDRAH L8VA I IGHTFI S 62037 69 95

tin. 1 1 [" \ M I . .A Mill St. 95252 24,99

SWIFTYMOUSI C10653 24-95

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POWERFCBOARD 96620 26995

PCI3M MODULE fcrCVT 97713 319.99

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IBM Compatibility $
for only

Includes: • IBM-compatible Floppy Disk Drive

• 512K RAM

• MS-DOS software

BRIDGEBOARD.

By popping the Bridgeboard into an A2000 expansion slot, you add IBM-compatible features to
your Amiga— wh;le retaining all of the Amiga's advanced abilities. The board features an 8088
microprocessor. 512KByte RAM. a PC-XT BIOS, a 5.25' 360KByte floppy drive, an external
floppy drive connector, and a socket for a math coprocessor. These IBM'Compatible features
allow you to run thousands of MS-DOS software programs at the same time as you're running
your Amiga applications.

Bridgeboard XT 84706 179.99

Bridgeboard AT 84719 299.99

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(1-800-776-6781)

Save 80% on
Deluxe Music

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19.95

Run C64 Software /) /
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AM I'jL-kago

Thinking about upgrading to an Amiga, but don't want to give up your valuable C64 software

and data? Now. with the A64 emulator package from Ouestronix, you can connect your 1541

or olher Commodore disk drive to your Amiga 500 or 2000 and actually run your C54 software

on the Amiga! AmigaWorld called the A64 Package "a breeze to install' and "far more refined

than its competitors.' Some software which incorporates disk 'fast load' may not work, and the

speed of operation of some games may change depending on the speed ol your Amiga.

Package includes bolh disk software and special adapter.

A64 C10550 39.95

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Don't sell your old system for pennies; give it away to charity
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By Louis R. Wallace

Your Old System May
Help Those in Need

Q, / have been thinking about upgrading
my Amiga 1000 to either a new A3000 or
perhaps one of the rumored new machines
Commodore is supposedly planning to
release this fall. So I have been checking
out what I could get for my 2.5 MR
A1000, and sad to say, the going rate is
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instead of selling it, I teas thinking of
making u donation of it to a worthy cause.
I'm writing to ask if you know of any chari-
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James Orville
Miami, Florida

A. James, there are a great many orga-
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Amiga. Many of them qualify as chari-
ties, and vour donation can be used as
a tax deduction, possibly giving you a
better return than actually selling the
computer.

I recently got some information on a
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accepts the donation of used comput-
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about computer technology. The orga-
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Another organization is called the
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Through mi' work at Amiga World 1
met a gentleman by the name of Don
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did a number of jobs for our "Fool
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One of the worst things about ALS is
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The ALS Association, Tampa Bay

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2.04/1.3 and Booting

Q. Help! I just got the Amiga DOS 2.04
upgrade for my A2000. I also got a Switch-
It board that lets me select between the 1.3
and 2.0 kickstart ROMs, and I installed
1.3 on one hard disk and 2.0 on anotlier.
Both hard dish are set to autoboot. The
problem is that when I boot under 1.3, I get
an error message ("This disk requires kick-
start version 2.0 or greater. Ciselpatclt
failed return 20."). What do I need lo do to
get the system to boot under 1.3?

Chris Henschen
Bowling Green. Ohio

A. The easiest way is to check to see
what version of kickstart you booted
with. Here is a simple test you can do
using the VERSION command within
your startup-sequence.

; S:STARTUP-SEO_UENCE
VERSION >NIL:
LIBS:YERSION.LIBRARY=37.67
IF WARN

ECHO "NOT 2.04"

EXECUTE S:START1. 3
ELSE

ECHO "YEP. 2.04!"

EXECUTE S:START2.0
ENDIF

The First thing to do is change your
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The 1.3 should assign the system paths
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fonts, etc., to your 1.3 hard disk. The
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it's belter than the orgional' Pharaohs Curse is a clone of the origlonai C64

classic. Diplomacy s a beautifully computerized version of the Avaloi N i

board game-conquer or be conquered! Galaga requires 63023-

FD76: Catacomb - is a lull graphic dungeon adventure game with beautiful

graphics and a very slick icon-mouse driven interlace.

FD75: Arcade Series ■ Descender is a done ol the Classic arcade game

"Tempest"; complete with vectonzed graphics Tan* is the classic battle of

trajectories and inertia between two tanks— incredibly well donei Search is a

maze game unlrke acy other — included is a level editor loo (Tanx requires I

meg chip memory ^ Fat Agnus)

FD74: Arcade Series - RingWar is an "Outer Limits" clone with vectorized

graphics. MotherLode is a Lode Runner" clone with 50 levels! In BiitzTanks,

they're coming at you from all direclionsii Call In air strikes and use your

heasry artillery to survwel

FD73: Arcade Series - Intruder Alert! is a MULTil -level "Berserk" clone.

Features smooth garnepiay, greai graphics 6 digitized sound i!x.

FD72; Sword of the Warlock ■ This is a demo version of a grea] public

domain graphic dungeon adventure game. The adventure spans three

diskettes and allows two players to go adventuring. The game has a Bards

Tale 1 feel to ft Three disk set. counts as 2. Requires I meg of RAM and 2

(loppy dnves-HD installable.

FD71AB.B; Star Trek: TNG Trivia Challenge - So you think you know The

Next Generation, huh? Complete with fantastic sampled sounds and digitized

images, [his game even looks and sounds I'ke a genuine Star Trek terminal!

VE RV thorough and compietel Counts as 2 disks.

FD70: SpaceGames Contains ArmGoids. >fltmD)rk an Asteroids game that

takes advantage of the Amiga— totally configurable with greai sound and

gjpahics In Cosmosiruclion the objecl ol the game is lor each

CosmosirLction loam to acquire Ihe most points while construction energy

ducts between the space station ord planetoids

FD69: MlntfGimBa - Had enough ol shoot-em up games? Relax and let

these 21 games exercise your mind instead of your wrist.

FDBS: Polpourri - Eternal Rome is a strategic simulation of the Roman

Empire including military, diplomatic, political, economic and social factors.

Lord of Hosts is a board strategy game for 2 players In Moonshine, you've

got to get the hootch across the stale Erne — a great rolling, scrolling driving

gfljntj

FD67: Arcade - Includes Uamatoi a well-done Robot'on' done Hate '& a

"ternlic" commercial grade Zaxion clone wilh multiple evgis/workJs and

smooth diagonal scrolling .a 101

FD64: Game* - WizzyS Quest - a "greai" 50 level game wlti great graphics.

Cubus - a 3-dimon5kmai Terns- typo game (rotate and move m 3 dimensions) .

Husker Du - Colors and pattern rather than shape m this Tetns-esque game;

$ screens and 3 levels ol dtfflcutty. Requires Fat Agnus f 1 Meg of Chip)

F£>62: PomPom Guntwr. An extremely smooth and well done World War n

gunner simulation Requires l megabyte ol memory

Special Product!

QT1 : The A64 Package • A veiy complete Commodore 64
emulator. Supports any CPU and is fully computable with
WBi .3 & 2.0. This version includes a special adaptor that will
allow you to connect your 64"s 1541 disk drive to your parallel
port ol your Amiga tor total emulation. Two disk sel. counts as
two. Special price S49.95 - including hardware.

WB120: Grinder ■ a complete graphics conversion package mat supports
GIF's, JPeg. Atan ST [Neocrirome & Degas). PCX. Targa. TIFF. HAM-E and
IFF format pictures

WB11B: Amiga Beginner - Vou ask«d for it! A tutorial lor the beginner on
USmg your Amiga 1 Covers trie CU and Workbench, it's great for learning
about tne Amiga Also contains nu-nerous bMuWW 16-cotor icons 'or W8 3.0
WBH7; Religion - Conta=ns Scripture Mem{a*Js(n memorizing verses and
passages) and in Pauls Journey, you are Paul of Tarsus exploring trie
Mediterranean and preaenmg just as Paul did. Req. 1 VB RAM_
WB116: Databases This is what you've been waiting for! Contains S
uniquely specialized diabase programs for tracking: Videotapes. CD's.
Magazine Arttctes, Comic Books erd Trad>ng Cards!

WQ 1 1 5: T#rm - If you have ArmgnDOS J-Q4 snd a modem, then this l| THE
program tor you. Term totally contorms to [he User Interlace StyJe Guide lor
3.0*. nas an ARex* port, and supports ail popular tile-transfer protocols
through XPR libraries. We wish all programs were written to this caliber.
WOt 14: Fonts #4 ■ Contains 36 Mmap system fonts.
WB1 13: Sid II ■ Why pay 4Q buoKs for a directory utility, when this one will do
it all plus much more! A truly professional-caliber program Sid i was our
best, now completely rewritten, Sid 2 will undoubtedly astound you.
WB112: Productivity' But! neu ■ Stock Analysis allows automated down
loading ol slock data with lull analysis capabilities (requires modem).
SuPStore will allow you to log magazines and ariidus with lull
search scan print capabilities.

DDB7: Amiga Intuition Based Benchmarks, - a greet package with all me
popular benchmarks including Sieve. Dhrysione. Savage. IMath & Maf/u
DD86: The Programmer ■ hdudes GadTools and REQTools which will .
allow you to create ycur user interfaces and then the program will automati-
cally generate "C" source code or Assembly -code- -saving you countless
hours ol work! Requires, and writes code tor. AmigaDOS2 04.
DD85; AnalyUHIM - Tis incredible program is a combination ol a powerful
spreadsheet and a Relational Information Manager [database). Not lor the
faint of heart, this is a heavy duty package! Req I MB RAM
DDSfl- Pioieua BBS Tn s auk contains the full blown version of the
Proteus BBS software. Totally configurable & ultimately powerful Requires
a hard-drive. ARe*« and at teasl a meg of memory.

DDB3: IBM - No! one. bul TWO IBM emulators lhat will allow the running ot
MS' DOS software with Amiga programs' !' Comes complete with programs to
turn your Amiga floppy dnves into ?20K ISM compatabie drives-
DDB2: Unix Contains a worsting demo ol Mmix ■ a Unix workatike. Mink is
system cal comparable with V7 of Unix

Fun Disks I

F05: Tactical Games BullRun a Civil war battle game. Metro you play Ihe
role ol a city planner Build wisely and your system will be a success, but poor
planning will lead to disaster and llnancial rum. Vary very habit lorming.
Ft>6: GAMES! - This disk is chock full of games including; Checkers. Clue.
Gold ■ A new slide Ihe pieces puzzle. Jeopard - An enhanc&d version of Risk.
RushHour - Surpnsingly addicting, and SpaceWar - Best descnued 33 a. cross
between Combat-Tanks and asteroids.

FD7: Pacman - This disk contains several pacman type games including;
PacM

FfJ9: Morla -. This has great graphic controls, multiple spells, similar lo Lam
and Hack. Play time several weeks!

FOIO: HackLlte A dungeon adveniure game Considered a must-have clas-
sic This is ihe second release of this game an the Amiga. Great graphic
interlace. Play time several weeks'

FD11 : Lbs Vegas and Card Games - Las Vegas Craps - The best Las
Vegas Craps simulation every written tor any computer. Contains extensive
HELP features. Also Thirty-One. Video Poke r and mare.
FiDt2A,FDl2B: Star Trek* The Game - This s by far the besi Star Trek
game ever written for any computer It features mouse control, good graph-
ics, digitized sound eflects and greai garnepiay Counts as 2 disks. Req. i Mb
nnd twu drives (or hd)

FD13: Board Games contains muitiplayer Monopoly. Dominoes. Parana ids.
and others-

FD14: Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games - DM maps, spells, item
location, and hints and more, also on [his disk. Hball - an arfcana id 'breakout
type game. Tnx - a Qix-type clone.

F017: Educational Games - This disk includes several games for the
younger members including geography, math, Edonco, and word games, also
includes Wheel ol Forture,

FD2D: Tactical Games ■ MechFofcrj(3 72); A game thai simulates combal
between two or more giant, roboi-iike- machines- Simple words can I begin to
give you the Icol ol piloting a 30 - 40 loot tall, lire breathing, earth shaking
colossus that obeys your every Whim

FD2S:Arcadc Games ■ Marble slide is a commercial Quality game — similar
to a Lucas game named PipeDreams. excellent payability and entertainment.
Mutants— a small version of the same arcade game SuperBreakouL is a
Pono/Arkanaidstype game

FD27: Arcade Games - Thus d'sk is loaded wnth some great games. InclLdes.
Raceorama a great racing car game with ten different courses, Mini&iast a
helicopter gunship type clone. Shark in the same class as Iroger. and
SBreakott! Ihe original breakout with more.

FD2<J: Shoot/em up's ■ WWII ■ you're- the pilol a' a WWII plane (lying through
enemy territory, you'vo just been spotted, good luck on you mission, 5pK ilor
try and penelrale enemy lines with this game, and Rataliaior • another great
game.

FD31 : Games! ■ Air Traffic Contra! - a good ATC simulation. BiacJ< Jack Lab -
a full featured set of card games. CtiessTel - play chess wi|h your friend in
distant and remote places with ihis game and a modem, labyrnth - a well
done text adventure game [like an intocom game), and MouseTrap - a 3d
maze game.

FD32: Flight Simulator - An Instrument fight simulator for a DCio.
FD33: Arcade Games Ftreddy a Mario Broihers type ol game, Gerbils a lar-
gel practice game, Pipeline a German interpretation ol Pipe Dreams. Tron a
i ghl cycles version, and Weiroids a wonderful version of asteroids with &
hilarious twist.

FD3S: Omega (v 1.3} ■ A new outstanding dungeon and ouidoors adventure
game in a similar vein as hack, rouge, end mora This version is consider-
ably lasier and better that all prevrous versions. Play t«me several weeks.
FD37A*B:Tacllc3l Games ■ Empire (2.2w) This great game comes hghly
recommenced W;th a fu '(-graphic front end

FD33; Games • Cnbbace Master - A great cnbPage game and tutor, Spades
- a well pone card came ChmeseChecXers A computer version or this clas-
sic. Puzz - a slide piece puzrle game and construction set.
FD39A4B: Slar Trek, The Hew Generation - This is a competeiy different
version o! Star Trek than that found on FD12 This one was created by the
German author Tobias. Now with English instructions. Excellent'!*! Counts as
rwodtsXs Requires 512k

FD44: Game - Mechtight is an out ol this world role-playing adventure com-
parable to hack and mena. The setting, interplanetary colonies and space
stations. In your quest to explore the world, take nme out to liberate bad guys
of their most valuable possessions, engage m a mortal combat or two aga-nst
robots and alien life forms, pick up a new Amiga 9000, Mosl ol all don t -orgel
to slay alive...

FD49:Chaos CheatB This disk contains an everything you wanted to knew
about cheat set lor Chaos Strikes Sack, including lull maps, spells, object
locations, super characters and more.

FDSO; Submarine Game - Seaiance. one and a halt years m the making this
is an outstanding submanne tactical game. Co-nmercia! Quality, highly rec-
■ — intod

FD52: Classics Games PetersQuesi a well done Mano brothers type of
Ejame. Jymdc a two player missile command tfene. and Vstank a tank com-
mander game.

FD53: Great Arcade On this disk is a wonderlul implementation ot the ever
popular classic arcade game Defender. Also conta-m Air Race a WWII Dying
ace arcade game, and Psyccblast new creation idea game
FD5G: Arcade - Includes SpaceWar. HueyRptd =S a well done helicopter
arcade game PowerPong's a great expanded pong game.
FD57; Arcade Games • includes 2 truly commercial quality games.
Mega&aH. an Arkanoid-Eh game, features S musical scores, multiple levels
and addicting garnepiay. Gravity Attack is a psy:hadellic tnp through several
different worlds — each distinctly different.

FDS3: GAMESt ■ Induces Stemschlag' a groat Toms clone from Germany
with music SCombat: simulate battle between up to 40 players & monsters.

Impenum Romanum: Battle up to 4 players lo? control of the Mediterranean
en this Rtsk-esque game

FD59: Game Potpourri - Xenon III 15 an almost exact done Of Ihe commer-
cial ggme of the same name .a great shootemup Crossword will ta)*e lists ot
words S automatically generate word-searcn pujjles lor any Epson compat-
abie printer.

FDSO: Games - In Nebula, race over a 3d world to destroy enemy installa-
tions. Interferon; a great Dr. Mario done. Enigma: is 1 a gameor .3 puzzle?
FD6I : Games - Solitaire, great graphics, plays two versions Klide; an inter^
estmg piece of eye candy Extreme Violence; 2 player kill or bekilled game.
VATC, A Telns clone with Ani'ical Intelligence Genesis; create rea!is.tc 3d
fractal worlds

1 .-. 1 : • ,

Workbench Disks/

WB4:Telecommumnication ■ This disk contains several excellent pd com-
munication programs designed to get you on line quickly and easily, Access
|1.42) - A very nice ANSI term program. Comm (1.34) - Latest version ol
one of the best public domain communications programs ever made on the
Amiga. Handshake (2 i2a| Handshake is a Ful featured VT52/10Q- : 10£ ; 22Q
WB5: Font* J1* Seve-al lonts (35) for the Amiga, also included are live
PageSlream lonts. and ShowFom - a font display program.
WB6: Fonts #2 ■ ShowFonii.4 0) This program allows you to quickly and
painlessly view all 256 characters tn a typical font. Large AmigaDos system
lonts (many up to 56ptsj

WB7: Clip An - This disk is loaded with black and white clip art. An
includes. Uees. watches, tools, US and State maps, and nrore.
WB9: Icons - Truly a multilude ol various types and kinds. Also includes
IconMiester. IconLab. and others great utilities to help generate icons.
WB10: Virus Killers - The latest and best VirusX(4.0l, Kv[2 t), and
ZproVirus Ml

WB11: Business ■ Cter-;[4 0), finally a full featured business accounting PD
program for the small lo medium company, Includes receivables, payables,
end of month and uch mote.

WBI 2: Disk Utilities This greai disk is loaded wrth wonderful utilities far
everything including making disk labels, disk cataloging, disk oplimizing, disk
and fire recovery archive and organizing, and al sorts of file manipulation. A
must have!

".v 313: Printer Drivers and Generator - ovei 70 different drivers, and if
these don't do it. with PrtOrvGen you can make your own

WfiiS; Business - This disk contains a spreadshuet. a database, a
projecl/lime management program and financial analysis (slacks}.
WB16: Business Tnis disk contains an inventory manager, a loan analysis
program, a great calendar' scheduler, a rolodex program, and pennywise a
good "Cash Book" accounling tor home or otlice

WB18; Word Text Processors - This disk coniams the best editors.
Includes. TextPfus [v2.2e] a fall featured word processor. Dme(vl.35) a
great programmers editor wilh strong macro features. TexED(f2. 8) an
enhanced Emacs type editor, and a spell checker.

WB22: Fonts S3 • Several mora great tonts. These. Ike Iho other font d sks
worfc great wuh Dpaint and WYSIWYG ward processors.
WB23: Graphics and Plotting ■ Plcl {20b; a three dimensional malhomali-
cal (unction plotter. Can plot any user defined function, BezSurf2 ■ prodjee
awesome pictures of objects one could turn on a lathe. Can also map ill
image liles, onio any surface that it can draw. Now compatibfe with most 3D
packages, and VScreen - makes a virtual screen anywhere, greal for DTP!
WB25:Edut.aiional - On this disk are two programs thai can generate maps
of differing types. World Data Base uses the CIA's data base to geneiate
desalted maps o! any entered user global coordinates Also Paradox a groat
demonstration of Aloert Einstein General Theory ol Relativity
WB26: Disk Utllilles #2 - MrBackup. KwickBatkup - two well done uMihws
;□ do 'larddtsk and floppy disk Backups, FiloMasi - a binary file* oditor,
Labtilprmlor - Disk label punier with VBry pqwerlul featuieS.
WB27: Nagel • 26 Patrick Mafjul piclures Of beautilul wOrren.
WB29: Graphics artd Sound This disk has several dill&Tem Mandelbrot
type programs for generating s'unnmg graphics Includes. WandelMounfains
- a realistic terrain generator. Fracgen - generated recursive fractals l^om
user input. Mandelbrot and Tmandei - two last mandeibrot generators, also

KAO 3" 2 " Blank Diskettes DSDD

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No shipping chugc on USA blank disk orckrs, Canadj and Mexico

add S. 1 5 each. Other iorei

pn add S.50 each.

Mcslra - the best IFF d sp?ay fj-og-aTi so date, wiil display ALL IFF'S incud-
:ng Dynamic HAM. and Sound - a great IFF sound player, will play anything.
WB33 :Circuit Board Design - several terrific routines lor the electronic
enthusiast. Including PCBtod ■ a circuii board design tool. LogicLab - circuit
logic lester. and Mead |1 Z6J a well done new release oi this PC- CAD pro-
gram, now comes with predrawn common circuit components lor insertion
into schematics ^g^P* ...

WB34: Utilities ■ Several wel done utilities, some Will requ re mode r ato
■ n3wtedg*ol a CLI cr Shell for setup. Cnat;oi Bat r.sone wrltt play any
usee Defined sound alter any event [><3. o*s* Insert, -ouso dick, disk
removal .), , Artm - The Amga reallime monitor, gives you fuD oontrof of iho
Amiga OS, vwy powerful proo/an. Helper - help program to make learrttg
the CLI easier, and mere 1

WB35: 3D Graphics ■ This disk coniarfte seweraf Tieai progra-rs (g- use wfch
your 3d model. fift rayrracing prag-ams &:F0ros-Fu:t vector iDit set io-use
wiih 3d prop/ams. FonlMaker - make 3d kWils- from any system ton!.
MakeSDStiape ■ create 3d Shapes frtm any Image. OumpiclFF ■ create 3d
animations preservi-::. piKet, and WaidSd a d*mo u-ccr.im □! a front prd
for use win DKBRoncer

WB16: Graphics - On 11,3 dish are several ptOGjrarns to Creole stunning
graphical image's Ircludig. MPalh - creates swirling ga'a*y ifriages. Bos#3 -
oroduce an unlmttec! r^irtx;- of variations ol images that a iyrnmeincally
s:mj!ar to a :ase SimCe-i - d.splay those spectacular images as part of your
workbench sneer, and RayS-ada - a very gocd ray'rat^ng program, create
your own beautiful 3d graph c models with this one 1

VVB37- Educational - Educational games and puKies fhal cover math,
geography, spelling, and books. Ages 6 - IS

WB36: Plotting and Graphics - Plolny >s the most powerful iukl featured
plotting package. Used by many colleges and universities A we'eomo addi-
tion to our library 1 Highly recommended. Plans - a incredibly wed donu
Computer Aided Drafting program, very full leaiured. Tossolatoi - a pro-
gram thai helps generates fantastic looking, recursive M.C. Ecstier type pic-
tures.

WB4G: Music ■ "CD on a disk", 90 minutes of modem music on this wtfl
■.,-■:■}■■- ';z ::::- ■::: z" R^cl. ■■■ '1 J-i.*?e c -"■

WB41: Music • MED an incredibly well done, lull featured music editor
Create your own stunning music directly on your the Amiga Similar to
SoundTrackef But Detlei. Very powerlul easy la use program ve'Sion320.
wh"Ch is ccrripalable with WB2.0A.

WB43: Business ■ This d;Sk contains AralytCalc - probjicty the most pow-
ortul spreadsheet program on Iho Amiga A lull featured Spreadsheet With
many leatures expected m a commercial package, Requlies 1 2 M8 oi
memory 1 >

WB46; Clip Art - High Res clip an with the following mollis - embellish-
ments (borde's. dodads ....). people, and transportation
WB47: Clip Art - HigtiRes cUp an with the following motils ■ hair, draftng,
summer, animals and macfood

WB48: Clip Art HighHes clip art wHh the fcliawmg motifs - Holidays,
music, medical, and misc

vVB49ABC: Animation Sampler - On lh£ three disk sampler sei (counts as
two disks) are some of the best animations that have been croated over the
last three years. Several examples ol "Movie" type animations some wiih
spectacular raytraced reality (coolroby. watch, spigot and egg). Also several
European style or Demo* ammaton witn incred ble graphics and outsiand-

ng electronic music (aknligni. copersine. doc, dps2010. impact, and logode-
■no) These truly show o'f the creative edge of ar Amiga!
WB50: Animation Seven ol the best european Sly'p animations or
'Demos', including - scientific 451, subway la US. entrant, also our
favorite), $un,nde. Ihrstdemo. |nign|. waves, and woow
WB53: Graphics ■ Raylracmg piograms generate absolutely stunning real-
»tk? looking planes, rockets, buildings,-., and surreal images ol|enconsir/ing
0l highly polished spheres and objects, C-L^hl is the most powerful EASY-
TO-USE of it's kind we nave seen to date. This is easily better, and more
'oil featured, than similar commercial programs costing in the hundreds of
dollars Also. sMovie - a full featured video :■:■■■ titler similar to ProVideo.
Broadcast Titier, Great video scrolling, wipes, special elfects. and more...
WB54; Printing ■ This disk contains several roLtmos to help with the chore
of printing. Includes Gothic ■ Finally a Banner printer tor ihe PDi PrmiStLdio
■a well implemented all-purpose primer -utility with a very comlortablo graph

c interlace and man/ advanced leaiures. Lila - with ease, print ASCII Mas 10

a PostScript printer, and many more

WB55: Application - XCopylll a lull loatured disk copier, make backups

ot copy protected disks. RoadRoule - find |he qu ck^st route irom one city to

another, highway descnolion included. Drary - 3 diary program like "Doggy

Howard M D". Cal - a calendar program, Magman - a calabase tailored to

maintain records on articles and publications,

WB57: Animation ■ This disk has several "Demo" stylo animations,

Including, Biilte>. Lolly. SunS. vertigo, vorlox. and xenmorph.

WBfil: Intermediate Utilities - Includes programs to help lo drasticaly
decrease flicker in inteiiace and hires modes (antillickj, an Alari st emula-
tor, an eprom orogrammer. turn your amlga into an eight Channel digital
data analyzer cr oalioscope. and more-

WB62: Midi Utilities ■ Several useful midi uMHies in-ciyrimg, programs to
transfer to and from several music programs to msdi, a midi sySex handler, a
midi recorder wiih timebase. display midi info, lile sequence player, and a
lew scores,

WB63: Disk Utilities #3 ■ Several highly recommended programs to aid in
removing duplicate files from your hard drive, perlorming lie backups.
Binary editng, fast formatting, file recovery, disk track recovery, and lorced
DISK VALIDATION ol corrupt disks,

WB56: Icons *2- Lot's ot neat Icons, Also, several wonderful programs that
10 let you create your own icons. modMy and manipulate Icons and inlo
structures.

YVB63: Music Utilities - several good utilities lor the Amiga music enthusi-
ast. Includes, Noise tracker - a great music creation program. Sonix2MGD -
converts sonix to mod files which then can be used by noisetracker, souncf-
trakar, arid MED, SpeaherSim ■ a speaker design tool demo. V/ondersound
is an additive harmonic instrument design tool wiih a separate envelope
design window and 16 relailve harmonic strength and phase angle controls.
WB69 : Mualc Tms dish has over 90 minutes ot classical and modern elec-
tronic music lor you Amiga

WB70 : Desk Top Pub ■ Atcp - transfer Macmiosh screen fonts. Mac or IBM
format AFM metric liles. to Amiga screen fonts and PPage metric files
With this program, open the door to tne libraries of Adobe and PostScript
fonts' Calendar ■ month templates m PageStrearn form, Post - a full fea-
tured postscript ffia display and pnnt utility.

WB75: Music - over 100 instruments files [ inst] and sample sound files
(,ss) for your music programs.

WB76 : Applications - This disk conia ns Shchery - a often requested: knit-
ting design program, Lotto - a rather complete lottery tracking aid prediction
utibty. SS-S - this screen capture prcgram can grab almost any screen
including games. Today - a personal calender, Tarol - fortune teller, and
Grammar - grammar checker.

WB79: Home 4 Business Accounting - Includes Ckbacct - the most com-
plete checkbook accounting program going. LCDCaic - this «e? done calcu-
lator has a very large display and operates from the keyboard or mouse.
Mileage master - monitor your automobile mileage with this mileage log.
Grammar - a grammar checker, and Woftdtime - hnd out what time it Is in up
to 50 global cities.

WB81: Great Applications - Data Easy a very easy lo use, database pro-
gram. Don't lor the ease ol use fool you, this is a very M featured database
program including full primer control lor address labels and mail merge
, A :o nc tdes TypeTut a good lyp ng tutor F-'.C B V, I (nturati
label printer, Banner, a multi-tori banner maker, ana Budget a home
accounting m a program. Highly fecommended

WB82: Animations - Four fufl 'engtn. well done ■movi&" style an-matfoos,
including, Coycve. J-gglerll. GhostPoo . & Mecnantr. 2 disks, counts as 1.
WB83: Computer Art -this disk has some ol the best Am-ga -generated
computer art that we btvacofiected m the past 5 yoe/s.
WBB5: Graphics - Contains severs piog'amj tor manipuiat -§ 24 Brt co'or
images fham-e) and a rattier nice nt Imago processmg package.
WB85: Cent ur tan Pros* ■ An electron c rewlpaper - requ-'es ArnigaViSion
WB8BABC: The Comptato Bible A Tree disk so: with the entire te^t ot
tre t^Je* TestaTcn! and OWTestamertKmg James vers on a great utittry
Trtreed z*. set. co jits as three

WB9Q: Rippers. Strippers and Beats - Far the Amiga Tv.sic em'iusiast.
tt*«S disk COnta ns ■rrar.f programs des gn€ld stflp fflUSk: from yottr faVGnte
games and programs Also contains Drums a very nics drum machine
TWsdis* requires seme towMnedgeol toe CLI

WB93: Workbench Extjraa « This disk coniams tne utilities Ehat
Commodgrn should nav* *hrppefl with thw Amiga. VirjsX-J Snap. FixDiSk
1 recover corrupt deleted fllMK Disk Optimizer [floppy 4 lurd I. Machtll
[scfOen blan^e'. hoitey. mouse acce! , macro, clock utiktyl. GO.MF (a guru-
bustHi ,nrj PnrtSlVdiO

WB9S: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - This is definitely commercial grade;
we've seen many checkbook programs and this is absolutely tfie best- Full
budgeting, transaction recording and report generaton
WBM: Oupers ■ Contains Xcopyin S Nib which will backup ccpy-p'otected
programs FreeCopy removes copy prolecton from several programs, and
Supe*Duper wi l crank-out last AmjgaDOS copies.

HVB98: Business Incudes BBasell a rtce. powarful catabasa: BlzCalc— a
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SimEarth

By Peter Olafson

AT ITS BEST, playing SimEarth (Maxis, |69.95) is like being
in some wonderful, omnipotent bio-physical laboratory. The

steaming, shilling Earth is on the slab, the scalpels and retrac-
tors are at your right hand, and it's time for dinner.

Based around James Lovelock's Gaia theory (Earth's evolu-
tion is a single, closely knit, self-regulating process), SimEarth
is a grand-scale version of .Maxis' lovely small-systems simula-
tions (SimCity and SimAnt). Using an icon interface similar to
the earlier games, it places at your disposal a wide array of in-
struments to coax a planet to a happy, healthy and prosper-
ous — or possibly just weird — future. Overall, my reaction is pret-
ty warm — much like the Earth a few hundred million years ago.

Once pasi the pleasantly simple copy protection, you pick
one of eight scenarios. You can terralbrm Mars or Venus. You
can build continents or encourage civilization. You can pick up
where Earth left off in 1990. And you can shepherd a random
world from glowing ball of hot rock to one bursting with life
from prokavoles on up to carniferns (carnivorous, occasionally
sentient plants a la Eittle Shop of Horrors).

You can influence that growth both in broad terms via a set
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regulate the "greenhouse effect" and rainfall — or edit it in detail
by triggering events, setting terrain, and placing lifeforms...or
even monoliths. (Do these folks like the movies, or what?)

This is not SimCity, however, where simple human experi-
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rush to install this baby and loudly proclaim 15 minutes later

Who's on Earth?

that you do not understand it. It's not a boot-and-shoot, but a
real simulation, and even God needed Sunday off after creating
Earth. The spiral-bound manual is 220 pages long — and you'll
find it useful and interesting, even if you hate reacting manuals.
With that little phone book comes a Ifi-page quick-start
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fast RAM) and a lo-ies (320x200) one (requiring 5 1 2K of each).
SimEarth runs under Amiga DOS 1 .3, but Maxis recommends
using 2.04, a 16-MHz processor, a hard drive, and, for the hi-
res version, a deinterlacer.

Continued on p. 101.

Ultima VI: The False Prophet
[Origin, S69.95) is on the high side
of huge. Here's the first part of a
guide that will make it a I itt!e small-
er. This time we'll deal with the
game in general terms, and in future
columns get into specifics. .. and
some interesting oddities.

First off, there is an enormous
number of takable objects in the
game. I mean hundreds of 'em —
crockery, clothing, raw materials,
food, tools. It's part of the fun, of
course, but it can slow things down
if you don't exercise discretion, and
some people are having inventory
problems— either struggling to
manage a pawn-shop's-worth of ac-
cumulated possessions or agonizing
over what to dump or not to dump.

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson

So listen: Take only what you know
you need, not what you think might
be useful at some point, and simply
note the whereabouts of the rest;
you can come back to it later.

By the same token, don't load up
your party with too many extra
members. There are around a dozen
nonplayer characters whom you
can invite into the fold, a nd, natura I-
ly, it's fun to have the whole crew
from Ultima V on hand. But it
makes life much more complicated,
to say nothing of speed and play-
ability issues. Besides, only a few of
the IMPCs have anything to con-
tribute, and some of 'em are real

weenies when it comes to combat,
(Exceptions: Gwenno, Gorn and, in
particular, Seggallion, who you'll
find at Serpents Hold. He's a good
fighter and a regular pack horse.)
You can complete the game quite
happily with just your starting
quartet and the occasional hired
hand... or paw.

Magic isn't that big a deal here
compared to the earlier games. For
one thing, the Avatar is the only one
who can cast spells. (Don't even
bother looking for NPCs who can
turn that trick.) For another, while
there are a lot of spells in the game,
you apparently can prevail while us-

ing relatively few, so don't feel you
have to sell the farm to fill up that
little black book. Travel light.

I've seen different accounts of
which spells are strictly necessary
for success. Here's a conflation of
them: Dispell Field, Dispell Magic,
Explosion, Great Heal, Invisibility,
Mass Dispell, Mass Invisibility, Pick-
pocket, Telekinesis, Unlock Magic,
and Wind Change. If you've come
across any weird uses for the oth-
ers, let me know.

Behave yourself. And neatness
counts. I've heard stories to the ef-
fect that social graces aren't as
closely enforced in Ultima VI as in its
parent games, but I suspect that
i mpression comes from th e f act that

Continued on />. 101 .

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From p. 98.

SimEailh's only sin of consequence is distance — ilie overall
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Life seems rather far away, and this may not sit well with fans
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CRIB NOTES

From jl 98.

we're not hit over the head with
virtuespeak at every turn. Killing
nice people and stealing — even
from the bad ones — costs you kar-
ma points, which are monitored in-
visibly by the program. You'll need
at least your starting supply of 75
to finish the game. Now, you do
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Continued on p. 1 06.

CRIB NOTES

near the Lycaeum in northwest Bri-
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band of merry men (the whole crew familiar from the Errol
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to test your mettle at archery, the quarterstaff, and the me-
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merry men who don't take a new job pushing up daisies.

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As in Camelol, there's a convenient map mode that allows
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The downside: Longbow is crawling-across-the-desert-with-
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used to that system or, courtesy of Longbow's alternate solutions
and pleasant depth, there's a lot more game to enjoy here.

Cheers, Sierra. This is a good one. What's next?

SHORT TAKES By Peter Olafson

Pinball Dreams

Pinball on computer has always seemed to me a particularly pointless
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The Lost Treasures of Infocom

They're baaa-ack. Infocom, last seen in these parts circa 1989, has re-
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Merchant Colony

An 18th-century trading-and-colonizing game. Merchant Colony (Merit
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It comes in both a hi-res version (which looks just like the Mac II original)
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Aquaventura

Well, look what the cat dragged inl Announced four years ago around
the time of Chronoquest and re-scheduled at least five times, Aquaventura
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nothing to drag you back. The packaging calls it "the damp patch in your
software collection." I'll go along with that. Towel, anyone? ►■

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TC26AB : Word Saarch Maka r lets you create word-search puzzles. TimtGatc rs useful
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To Make Me Happy. . .

As loAjniga World's content. I would
like to sec* more comprehensive video
and multimedia coverage and (I'm
dreaming here) the complete extirpa-
tion of game reviews, tips, and ads. I
think your magazine should focus on
what sets the Amiga apart from the
others: multimedia, graphics and desk-
top video. Certainly the platform is
being utilized for broad-based personal
computing, but it's breaking new
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Pro Calc Protest

With regard to Daryell Sipper's re-
view of Professional Calc (Sept., p. 64),
there are a number of the program's
features that I feel are important, but
that Sipper neglected to mention. The
first is the speed of the program. A
great deal of time and effort was spent
in making frequently ttsed functions —
such as screen update, disk loading.
spreadsheet edits, and so on — as fast as
possible.

In regard to the above functions, I
believe that Pro Calc is still the fastest
spreadsheet on the market. The tool
bar across the top allows quick access to
important editing functions. There is
an ARexx spreadsheet function that
allows i lie user lo create hi-, or lie; own
functions (a powerful feature not avail-
able in any spreadsheet package on
any platform that I know of). Also,
Sipper barely mentioned the depth
and ease of use of the graphing tools
available. Short-changed as well were
the style tags, cell notes, multiple fonts
on the spreadsheet display, color

dithering on the graphing display

The list just goes on and on.

1 understand thai space is a consid-
eration in any review, but not even
mentioning most of these features and
then advising the user to buv MS-DOS
spreadsheets because of their larger
feature list makes little sense to me. I
feel thai Amiga World has done a disser-
vice to the Amiga community in trying
to shoot down what, in my opinion, is
the best spreadsheet available for the
Amiga and a very competant offering
in its price range for any platform.

Michal Todorovic
Author of Professional Cak

Ventura, California

Almost a Renegade

As a long-time C-(54 and 128 user, I
was on the brink of buying an IBM

Although I feel
betrayed by
Commodore's aban-
doning the 1000,
I remain very pleased
with the quality of it.

clone when I was introduced to the

Amiga by a friend who was selling his
A500, which was loaded with 2.5 megs
of RAM and accompanied by an exter-
nal 3.5-inch drive and an Amiga moni-
tor. Well, for 3450 1 purchased my
friend's Amiga, and I couldn't be hap-
pier. Boy, do 1 love my Amiga!

I recently bought Final Copy and
Professional Page 2. 1 , and these are
just what I need for my business, espe-
cially in the typesetting department

Chris Williams
Neptune, New Jersey

The Good Old 1000

When I bough! my A1000, I assumed
(foolishly, ii turned out) that there
would be an expansion system that
would allow me to upgrade with piug-
in cards that wouldn't cost a fortune. I
see thai CAT is really making some
great boards for the 2000, the 3000,
and the 500, but their cost is about the
same as a complete IBM clone system!
Although I feel betrayed by Commo-
dore's abandoning the 1000, I remain
very pleased wiih the quality of it I
have never had the slightest bit of
hardware I rouble with it over the years.
From what I read in your magazine,
that's a much better track record than
its successors.

Merrittj. Rucker
Bekn, New Mexico

The All-Around User

Though I don't mind your devoting
some space to specific uses, I think
that there is in Amiga World just too
much animation/art/graphics month
after month. Yes, those things are both
interesting and fantastic, but what
about all die other wonderful stuff out
there? I'm one of those "all-around"
users, doing finances, telecommunica-
tions, word processing, databases and
some minor desktop publishing. And I
firmly believe that I have more "user"
power in my Amiga system than all of
the PC look-alikes in the building
where I work.

As far as magazine format changes
are concerned, I think you're heading
in the right direction, but you need to
go a little lurl her. I like the header box
for the reviews, but I think it should
also be added to the Came Preserve.
After all, everyone would like to know
if a game is hard-drive installable,
2.04-compatible, accelerator-compati-
ble, and so on, before we shell out our
hard-earned money

Michael J. Gratis, Sr,
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ■

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